[FRIAM] words RE: words
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gepropella at gmail.com
Tue May 7 19:43:19 EDT 2019
Yeah, that definition is useless to me, unfortunately. It's definitions like that which force me to *avoid* the word "emergence" as much as possible.
On 5/7/19 4:39 PM, Nick Thompson wrote:
> In that same volume is my favorite definition of emergence: When the properties of the whole are dependent upon the order or arrangement of the ingredients. So a cake is an emergent, a bowl of oatmeal is not. I think that's Wimsatt.
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