Meaning of grist to the mill | Babel Free

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Noun. [C2]

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“What evil will not a rival say to stop the flow of grist to the mill of the hated one?”

“This might all seem grist to Berkeley’s mill. Berkeley himself knew that we interpret our experience in spatio-temporal, objective terms. But he thought we had to ‘speak with the vulgar but think with the learned’: in other words, learn to regard that interpretation as a kind of façon de parler, rather than the description of a real, independent, objective world.”

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