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Archaic a type of fine woollen fabric

say - A human may "say" things to a computer by typing them on a terminal. "To list a directory verbosely, say "ls -l"." Tends to imply a newline-terminated command (a "sentence").

A computer may "say" things to you, even if it doesn't have a speech synthesiser, by displaying them on a terminal in response to your commands. This usage often confuses mundanes.


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And what is sayable (not only showable) is also thinkable.
A political rationality governs the sayable, the intelligible, and the truth criteria of these domains.
Politics are innately aesthetic because divisions in society and hence social order are characterized by the sensible: visibility (those who are seen and those who are unseen), what is audible and inaudible and what is sayable and unsayable according to Jacques Ranciere, who gave the keynote address, "The Contemporary Paradoxes of Political Art.
 
 
 
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