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Dreams of completion and an ancient solution.

Publication: ETC.: A Review of General Semantics
Publication Date: 01-JUL-08 		Format: Online
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Full Article Title: Dreams of completion and an ancient solution.(METAPHORS IN ACTION)(Essay)

Article Excerpt
All my life I have had an intellectual dream--that all knowledge could be unified into one complete whole. Why could it be unified? Because our lives have underlying patterns, and we can come to know them to some extent. The patterns of our lives are nested within the patterns of others' lives, and within larger social and natural patterns. I dream that we can put this all into our symbols. I call this a dream of completion. It is a dream about unifying knowledge so we can understand the larger, invisible flow of our lives.

Where do such dreams come from? I don't know. Everybody does not have this dream of completion. Many people actively oppose it, particularly those in academe.

But to me, it has always seemed that reality fits together...

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