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Sticks-and-stones
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The author mentiones something about the paranormal and then writes:
In the last several decades a remarkable body of evidence has accrued suggesting that our current understanding of reality, the solid and comforting sticks-and-stones picture of the world we all learned about in high-school science class, is worng.
1. What other word can be used in place of "solid"?
2. It seems to me that "sticks-and-stones picture of the world" means "material world", but I'm not sure?
The author mentiones something about the paranormal and then writes:
In the last several decades a remarkable body of evidence has accrued suggesting that our current understanding of reality, the solid and comforting sticks-and-stones picture of the world we all learned about in high-school science class, is worng.
1. What other word can be used in place of "solid"?
2. It seems to me that "sticks-and-stones picture of the world" means "material world", but I'm not sure?
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Newguest 1. What other word can be used in place of "solid"? concrete Newguest 2.
- Newguest 1.
- What other word can be used in place of "solid"?
- concrete Newguest 2.
- It seems to me that "sticks-and-stones picture of the world" means "material world", Yes, but I think the writer mixed his metaphors and meant 'bricks-and-mortar'.
- Sticks and Stones refers to a children's rhyme ("Sticks and stones may break my bones / But names will never hurt me").
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Newguest1. What other word can be used in place of "solid"?concrete
Newguest2. It seems to me that "sticks-and-stones picture of the world" means "material world",Yes, but I think the writer mixed his metaphors and meant 'bricks-and-mortar'.
Sticks and Stones refers to a children's rhyme ("Sticks and stones may
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