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And yet, what you wrote is coherent and what he wrote is not.
@Supervisor194@lemmy.world
Thanks (I took this as a compliment).
However, I kind of agree with @Senal@programming.dev. Coherence is subjective (if a modern human were to interact with an individual from Sumer, both would seem "incoherent" to each other because the modern person doesn't know Sumerian while the individual from Sumer doesn't know the modern languages). Everyone has different ways to express themselves. Maybe this "Lewis" guy couldn't find a better way to express what he craved to express, maybe his way of expressing himself deviates highly from the typical language. Or maybe I'm just being "philosophically generous" as someone stated in one of my replies. But as I replied to tjsauce, only who ever gazed into the same abyss can comprehend and make sense of this condition and feeling. It feels to me that this "Lewis" person gazed into the abyss. The fact that I know two human languages (Portuguese and English) as well as several abstract languages (from programming logic to metaphysical symbology) possibly helped me into "translating" it.
Not that i disagree with you, but coherence is one of those things that highly subjective and context dependent.
A non-science inclined person reading most scientific papers would think they were incoherent.
Not because they couldn't be written in a way more comprehensible to the non-science person, but because that's not the target audience.
The audience that is targeted will have a lot of the same shared context/knowledge and thus would be able to decipher the content.
It could well be that he's talking using context, knowledge and language/phrasing that's not in the normal lexicon.
I don't think that's what's happening here, but it's not impossible.