The knot with not

You cannot deny something with both hands. Saying “not” differs from doing “not”: you cannot do the last. This creates a strange knot in communicating. Facilitation has a lot to do about not.

… What do you suppose is the use of a child without any meaning? Even a joke should have some meaning—and a child’s more important than a joke, I hope. You couldn’t deny that, even if you tried with both hands.”I don’t deny things with my hands,’ Alice objected.’Nobody said you did,’ said the Red Queen. ‘I said you couldn’t if you tried.’

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