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If I can be granted the license to continue saying that a text says this or that about itself when what I really mean is that a person or process employs its text to say the corresponding thing about itself or its text, then I can begin to introduce a variety of descriptive terms and logical tools into this text that can be used to talk about what this or another TOI “thinks” or “believes” at various points in its development, that is, in order to detail what I or its proper author thinks or believes at the corresponding points of discussion.
If I can be granted the license to continue saying that a text says this or that about itself when what I really mean is that a person or process employs its text to say the corresponding thing about itself or its text, then I can begin to introduce a variety of descriptive terms and logical tools into this text that can be used to talk about what this or another TOI “thinks” or “believes” at various points in its development, that is, in order to detail what I or its proper author thinks or believes at the corresponding points of discussion.
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| Fourteen, a sonneteer thy praises sings;
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| What magic myst'ries in that number lie!
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| Your hen hath fourteen eggs beneath her wings
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| That fourteen chickens to the roost may fly.
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| Fourteen full pounds the jockey's stone must be;
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| His age fourteen — a horse's prime is past.
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| Fourteen long hours too oft the Bard must fast;
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| Fourteen bright bumpers — bliss he ne'er must see!
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| Before fourteen, a dozen yields the strife;
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| Before fourteen — e'en thirteen's strength is vain.
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| Fourteen good years — a woman gives us life;
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| Fourteen good men — we lose that life again.
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| What lucubrations can be more upon it?
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| Fourteen good measur'd verses make a sonnet.
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| align="right" | Robert Burns, ''A Sonnet Upon Sonnets''
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One of the main problems that the present TOI has to address is how a TOI can address the problems of self-reference that an inquiry into inquiry involves. If a sonnet can say something true about sonnets, then a TOI, far less limited in the number and measure of its lines, ought to be able to say something true about TOIs in general, unless the removal of these limitations takes away the only things whereof and whereby it has to speak, the ends and means of its own form of speech.
One of the main problems that the present TOI has to address is how a TOI can address the problems of self-reference that an inquiry into inquiry involves. If a sonnet can say something true about sonnets, then a TOI, far less limited in the number and measure of its lines, ought to be able to say something true about TOIs in general, unless the removal of these limitations takes away the only things whereof and whereby it has to speak, the ends and means of its own form of speech.