Is means limited, and viceversa, as pointed before. In describing something which is, the natural tendency is to simplify the expression of this experience, that is, to reduce it to a particular case of a rule, a law of “nature”. This is a choice, and, by commiting to it, we push some of the rest [...]

In “Kant and the platypus”, Umberto Eco notes that there is something, before somebody talks about it. I think that is is exactly and entirely equivalent with limited. A subject can’t notice something without perceiving, or inventing, a limit (or attribute) of that something. The general case is the universe. Here, we invented a name [...]