True learning must not be content with ideas, which are, in fact, sign…

Umberto Eco
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True learning must not be content with ideas, which are, in fact, signs, but must discover things in their individual truth. ✨ Umberto Eco (1995). Name of the Rose, p.329, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
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