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the place where you stop thinking, not the place where thinking was finished.

means The final part or outcome of something — a decision, judgment, or ending reached after consideration.

from From Latin conclusio, from concludere 'to shut up, close, end,' built from con- 'together' and claudere 'to close' (the same root behind 'close,' 'include,' and 'exclude'). So a conclusion is literally the moment the doors are shut — the argument sealed, the reasoning boxed up. It reached English through Old French in the medieval period, and you can still hear that little snap of the latch in the word.

jumping
the only exercise some people get to it
latin root
means to shut up or close off
foregone variety
a conclusion that skipped the argument entirely
writer's curse
hardest paragraph, written when you're most tired
logic vs life
valid conclusions can still be utterly false
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