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"whatever is singular, unique, nothing but itself (INDEX) is what is is only _as_ the confluence of all its contexts, past and present, (CHAIN-INDEX), and, flip: It is the confluence of all its contexts only as _itself_. We do not reduce it to "nothing but its contexts" nor do we reduce it to a self-identical self apart from all contexts." (p.63)
— Dec 16, 2016 06:52AM
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Mats Erdling
is on page 69 of 312
"Just think: what would happen if every major medium of communication in our society gave more or less equal space to eight or ten markedly distinctive ideological points of view? _And_ the media executives and content-providers were trained in general-semantics? Yes, I know, that's impossible at this time. But why?" (p.67)
— Dec 20, 2016 10:52AM
Mats Erdling
is on page 55 of 312
"The Event Is Not The Object
The sky is not blue --
we see it as blue.
The table is not solid --
at the event level it is a whirl of subatomic particles --
we feel it as solid.
If a tree falls in the forest
it makes no sound
unless an ear is present
to transform the event of air pressure waves
into sound at the object level."
(p.51)
— Nov 26, 2016 10:47AM
The sky is not blue --
we see it as blue.
The table is not solid --
at the event level it is a whirl of subatomic particles --
we feel it as solid.
If a tree falls in the forest
it makes no sound
unless an ear is present
to transform the event of air pressure waves
into sound at the object level."
(p.51)
