Biological Life is More Than It Seems: Aiming Upward from the Flat Ontology of Materiality
The Meaning Code
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The Importance of Metaphoric Meaning in Statistics
Owen Barfield says that every word before it has an actual meaning has a metaphoric meaning. Tomah I mean one of the things that Owen Barfield says about this whole idea of symbolic meaning preceding everything is that he spends a whole four chapters and speakers meaning to flesh out the idea. There's no empirical way of deciding what the best model is and it comes down to reasoned reasoned decision making you know even statistics which gives us the appearance that we're doing some sort of objective work outside of ourselves.
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