Inference and reference are to reason and our concepts
as
preference and deference are to passion and our emotions.
We think a proposition is true or not.
We feel a proposal is just or not.
The thought conflates our inferences with our references.
The feeling conflates our preferences with our deferences.
Philosophy extricates our concepts from our reasons.
Poetry extricates our emotions from our passions.
They extricate us from the world and the history in which we are implicated.
Thus we make ourselves explicit.
