This total denial of context, whereby phrases are dissected makes it
easy to spot those who spent their education mainly avoiding math.

Forced association, argument : ask a mathematician the meaning of
these terms. Then try a sociologist, or a puppy-mill operater, perhaps
a pig farmer named picton.....

In fact, driving about, commuting is a denial of context ; there is a
three mile thick continuous cloud of pollution that circles the
northern hemisphere.

Quantity vs quality. which came first? chicken or egg?

....you must know the unknowable one - there's nothing possible to say
about it, as a symbol is a symbol of a symbol...ad infinitum, mere
muse, really, the cat is better at it.
Then it becomes a case of two or three [combinatorics] and there's
lots to say then.

So you see it was the back and forth between the chicken and egg that
came first. Forced association again.

Semiology. Fascinating code this language.