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We habitually speak of "sunrise" and "sunset" yet we know that those phenomena have nothing to do with the sun's movements, but only with the earth's daily rotation. Our very language is obsolete, unscientific, and misleading in this instance, and in many others.

-- Notebooks Category 7: The Intellect > Chapter 5 : Semantics > # 117