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Thinking is an attempt to apprehend Reality by catching it in a conceptual net, and a net is able to serve its purpose in virtue of having a texture which leaves gaps between the meshes. It is this open texture which gives a net its fling. If the net were made, not of an open network, but of a tightly woven cloth, the material would be too heavy to allow a net made of it to be effectively extensive. But the price of having a texture which makes it possible to catch something in the net’s meshes is the inevitability that something else will slip out of the net through the gaps.

—Arnold J. Toynbee, Reconsiderations, Volume 12 of A Study of History.