[Marlborough] was so miserably ignorant, that his deficiencies made him the ridicule of his contemporaries.

For quotations using this term, see Citations:delectable.

This crude inferentialism about recognition, of course, is not often explicitly defended: it is extremely implausible—just on plain phenomenological grounds—that recognition must be a matter of discursive reasoning.

He paused while the waitress deposited his coffee and stroopwafel on the table. He picked up the stroopwafel and put it on top of the coffee cup, like a lid.