People
That life is worth living is the most necessary of assumptions and, were it not assumed, the most impossible of conclusions.
— George Santayana
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Our reading
An editorial interpretation.
The statement makes life's worth both a necessary starting assumption and an impossible conclusion without that starting point. Its paradox concerns how belief supports reasoning. Meaning is presented as something a person begins from, rather than something that can easily be established afterward.
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