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Nonsense Is A: Communication Speech Writing Symbolic System Meaning Absurdity The Ridiculous Poets Novelists Songwriters
Nonsense Is A: Communication Speech Writing Symbolic System Meaning Absurdity The Ridiculous Poets Novelists Songwriters
coherent meaning. Sometimes in ordinary usage, nonsense is synonymous with absurdity or the
ridiculous. Many poets, novelists and songwriters have used nonsense in their works, often
creating entire works using it for reasons ranging from pure comic amusement or satire, to
illustrating a point about language or reasoning. In the philosophy of language and philosophy of
science, nonsense is distinguished from sense or meaningfulness, and attempts have been
made to come up with a coherent and consistent method of distinguishing sense from nonsense.
It is also an important field of study in cryptography regarding separating a signal from noise