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137. Maps of Meaning 09: Patterns of Symbolic Representation

The Jordan B. Peterson Podcast

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Is It an Interpretive Structure?

i'm often accused, most recently on sam harris's poadcast, of making up post hawk stories. How do i know that this isn't just an arbitrary post hawk analysis? And my answer to that, it's a technical answer, is it manifests itself at multiple layers of analysis simultaneously. The probability that it's merely an imposition of an a priori interpretive structure is decreased by the number of different levels of manifestation you can detect. That's why in science, use multiple methods to detect the same thing....

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