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David Perlmutter's avatar

"Re- in this sense means going back, so resolving something would be loosening a knot (say) back to its unbound state."

In a literal sense, that occurred when Alexander The Great figured out the way to untangle the ever-frustrating Gordian Knot (a term still in use for a complex, seemingly unresolvable issue).

Andrew Smith's avatar

It had to be shared.

Bill C. White's avatar

I am the the obligatory poster ;-)