when OCR copying errors generate art
This beautiful Futurese: “ad z’njinz’tum”
Far more arresting than boring Latin: “ad infinitum”
A quick Google search for the exact phrase (“ad z’njinz’tum”) returns Walter Lippmann’s “The Phantom Public” (my source for the above) and leads me to Hans Vaihinger’s "The Philosophy of ‘As if’*.
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* Relevant to our Info218 discussion tomorrow on information and truth.