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  <p>In what way can we define concepts so that they empower change – instead of <em>reifying</em> what exists? W
  30 KB (5,066 words) - 12:08, 17 October 2023
• Clippings
  ...ment Einstein was describing was that Newton created a method and a set of concepts, <em>which offered only an approximation</em> of "physical reality"—which ...came possible: To <em>do what Newton did</em> in all walks of life! Create concepts and methods that work <em>approximately</em>, but well enough...</p>
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• Holotopia summary
  ...language that had always belonged to its very substance, for instance, the concepts of mind, of the human soul or of life. (...) In the same way life was to be
  6 KB (1,027 words) - 15:09, 2 December 2020
• Holotopia:Keyword
  <em>keywords</em> are custom-defined concepts, which offer a certain specific way of looking or <em>scope</em>
  113 bytes (18 words) - 14:10, 25 July 2020
• N-keywords
  ..."so narrow and rigid that it was difficult to find a place in it for many concepts of our language that had always belonged to its very substance, for instance, the concepts of mind, of the human soul or of life." Since "the concept of reality appli
  45 KB (7,942 words) - 14:39, 11 November 2023
• N-ideograms
  ...epts, which are in turn constructed and understood in terms of lower level concepts, and so forth.”</p>
  15 KB (2,611 words) - 13:34, 9 November 2023
• N-STUFF
  ...stitute the structure of the conceptual system. <nowiki>[…]</nowiki> All concepts, even those closest to experience, are from the point of view of logic free <p>They are defined (not as pointers to real-life things, but as mathematical concepts are) by using <em><b>truth by convention</b></em>; when I, for instance, tu
  37 KB (6,485 words) - 17:47, 9 November 2023
• OLD-images
  Physical concepts are free creations of the human mind, and are not, however it may seem, uni .../em>]] stands for the fact that once we've understood that our traditional concepts and methods are <em>human</em> creations, which both enable us to see certa
  44 KB (7,301 words) - 14:40, 11 November 2023
• OLD-stories
  ...inant also in our culture at large; in spite of the fact that its frame of concepts was so narrow and rigid that it was difficult to find a place in it for many concepts of our
  38 KB (6,375 words) - 14:41, 11 November 2023
• OLD-applications
  ...th and meaning. There are two natural ways to broaden the "narrow frame of concepts" that Heisenberg warned us about six decades ago (see Federation through St ...research fields are what the people in them are doing. The way of defining concepts by [[design|<em>design</em>]] that is, by making conventions, allows us to
  76 KB (12,064 words) - 14:41, 11 November 2023
• OLD-conversations
  <p>But before we revisit Bourdieu's concepts, let us sketch the other two [[vignettes|<em>vignettes</em>]] that complete
  82 KB (14,022 words) - 14:42, 11 November 2023
• OLD-main
  <p>In what way can we define concepts so that they empower change – instead of <em>reifying</em> what exists? W
  31 KB (5,153 words) - 14:43, 11 November 2023
• THIRD-STORIES
  <p><em><b>Keywords</b></em> are concepts defined by <em><b>convention</b></em>. When I define for instance "culture" ...><b>knowledge</b></em> will rely on <em><b>reifying</b></em> the inherited concepts and other things, and importantly institutions; so that "religion" is under
  89 KB (15,680 words) - 09:55, 14 December 2023

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