Word: gasset
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...best compass in the river of time—connecting each of us to our other selves. We need to understand popular expressions always, in order to judge where we’ll personally stand on the re-writes every generation makes. As Spanish philosopher Ortega y Gasset explained, all that really differentiates us from apes is the pile of human errors we call “History.” And yet a sort of historic principle of uncertainty rules what each of us defines as “mistake...