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on. And applying it here and there and everywhere.
It’s a very compressed, a very condensed form of
statement and he deliberately chose that because
he wanted to teach.
He said, “For instruction you use incomplete
knowledge so the people can fill things in, they can
round it out and fill it in with their own experience.”
If what you want is simply to tell people something,
then by all means spell it out in the essay form,
but if you want to teach don’t do that. There’s no
participation in telling. It’s simply consuming, you
sit there and you swallow it. But with the
aphoristic style, you have the opportunity to get a