From HomoExcelsior

"Shih was the opposite of facts and raw information; shih was the elegance of knowledge, the insight and skill to organize knowledge into meaningful patterns. As an artist chooses colours or light to make her pictures, a master of shih chooses textures of knowledge : various ideas, myths, abstractions, and theories : to create a way of seeing the world. The aesthetics and beauty of knowledge : this was shih."

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