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<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"><head><title>the X that can be Y is not the true X</title><link rel="stylesheet" href="../../jargon.css" type="text/css"/><meta name="generator" content="DocBook XSL Stylesheets V1.61.0"/><link rel="home" href="../index.html" title="The Jargon File"/><link rel="up" href="../T.html" title="T"/><link rel="previous" href="the-network.html" title="the network"/><link rel="next" href="theology.html" title="theology"/></head><body><div class="navheader"><table width="100%" summary="Navigation header"><tr><th colspan="3" align="center">the X that can be Y is not the true X</th></tr><tr><td width="20%" align="left"><a accesskey="p" href="the-network.html">Prev</a> </td><th width="60%" align="center">T</th><td width="20%" align="right"> <a accesskey="n" href="theology.html">Next</a></td></tr></table><hr/></div><dt><a id="the-X-that-can-be-Y-is-not-the-true-X"/><dt xmlns="" id="the-X-that-can-be-Y-is-not-the-true-X"><b>the X that can be Y is not the true X</b></dt></dt><dd><p> Yet another instance of hackerdom's peculiar attraction to mystical
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references — a common humorous way of making exclusive statements
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about a class of things. The template is from the <i class="citetitle">Tao te
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Ching</i>: “<span class="quote">The Tao which can be spoken of is not the true
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Tao.</span>” The implication is often that the X is a mystery accessible
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only to the enlightened. See the <a href="trampoline.html"><i class="glossterm">trampoline</i></a> entry
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