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TREATMENT FOR HARDENING OF THE CATEGORIES

Comedian Steven Wright was confronted by a friend saying "Your socks don't match!" Steven responded "Yes they do. I was going by thickness."

When my current partner, a composer and artist, came to live with me, he immediately started treating my hardened categories.

One day, I came home from work and opened the kitchen cabinet to take out a glass. Jim had evidently put the clean dishes away earlier in the day. As a person who likes things in the right place, I had to stifle an annoyed complaint - the glasses and cups were all mixed up.

However, as a person in love, I wanted to find a cautious, friendly way to make my complaint, and as a student of general semantics, I wanted to practice ...

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