anacoluthia

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Hi I’m Craig Lawton.

I was reading a book called “The Way We’re Working Isn’t Working” and I came across this: “There is always an optimal value”, explained the philosopher Gregory Bateson, “beyond which anything is toxic, no matter what: oxygen, sleep, psychotherapy, philosophy”. The Stoic philosophers referred to this paradox as anacoluthia, the mutual entailment of virtues. No virtue, they argued, is a virtue by itself.”

So I went googling and couldn’t find anything to back this up but I found this definition which tickled my fancy : “anacoluthia: a use of language that creates a literary effect (but often without regard for literal significance)”.

And I just like the sound of the word…