You can't "carpere" the truth. "Carpe" does not mean to seize; it means to pluck with the fingers, as with a flower or ripened fruit. Truth is something received, not taken into possession. Your fingers' bones are called carpals, because they're the pluckers, as Hamlet reminds us.
You can't "carpere" the truth. "Carpe" does not mean to seize; it means to pluck with the fingers, as with a flower or ripened fruit. Truth is something received, not taken into possession. Your fingers' bones are called carpals, because they're the pluckers, as Hamlet reminds us.
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