Biological Life is More Than It Seems: Aiming Upward from the Flat Ontology of Materiality
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The Evolution of Meaning in Language
A language can evolve over time because a speaker chooses a different frame for a word and then uses that word in the new frame. Daniel Toma has sort of given me like the scientific permission to do that so I don't want to put any words in his mouth but please forgive him if he listens to this. He explicitly or implicitly acknowledges that the whole of a frog is greater than the sum of its parts because he's surprised that it can regrow a limb. The tendency the barfield was pointing out and I completely agree with it is we tend to lose those earlier that earlier meaning, says it like it ossifies like it petrifies basically.
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