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[yak@collab] Re: Dangling Threads 2003-03-17

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From: "Peter P. Jones" <ppj@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Sat, 22 Mar 2003 12:03:09 -0000
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On 22 Mar 2003 at 3:19, cdent@blueoxen.org wrote:    (01)

> On Tue, 18 Mar 2003, Tom Munnecke wrote:
> 
> > Two of these "missing nothings"
> > in our current language is the notion of all the stuff which clumps
> > around a self-organizing entity (the Org idea), and the notion of
> > seeing things flowing over time (what linguists call the diachronic
> > perspective of language, as opposed to the snapshot-in-time
> > synchronic approach). This is a huge subject which I know resonates    (02)

I hate to be boring but isn't seeing things flowing over time just 
watching a process (cf. philosophy of Whitehead), and the first 
notion something like 'symbiotic aggregation'?    (03)

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