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In the 1920s the Schevchenko twins proposed that any tract of text could be encoded as a binary sequence. They devised a complex system of symbol allocation that related to the letter and the letter’s location in the text. For example, the word ‘frostbite’ is represented by the sequence:

00111001000011010001110001101010100111

The Schevchenko twins proved, via rigorous textual analysis, that if the binary sequence of any narrative is added together then divided by itself, the total is always 1. Ergo, all language equals 1.

There is no apparent paradox within the Schevchenko twins’ theory. The inclusion of the term in the Anglo-Saxon philosophical lexicon is attributed to a misinterpretation of the colloquial Georgian ‘irtenev’, meaning fact, for the formal Russian ‘irtinav’, meaning contradiction. Both words are derivative of the Latin ‘irtino’, which is a type of wood.

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