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by simonw 22 days ago
How does that sentence support the idea that he knew "more about furniture than most"?

The bit you quote isn't even something he said! In the original post[1] it was assigned to "certain very old and very tired philosophers", but that's now been edited to just being credited as "a theory, not necessarily a really good theory".

[1] https://web.archive.org/web/20260523124615/https://www.mahl....