... are familiar, but are still liable in their abstract thinking to allocate those concepts to logical types to which they do not belong." 16. Also, according to the Oxford dictionary of philosophy a category mistake, or category error, is a semantic or ontological error in which things belonging to a particular category are presented as if they belong to a different category, 17 or ... ...

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... 's doctrine of correspondences took in his later years: the mystic sought to fix the metonymy of incessant metamorphosis, the fluency and contiguity of all forms, into final and unchanging form, a "dictionary of symbols." "The slippery Proteus is not so easily caught," Emerson writes of Swedenborg's "fatally narrowed ... interpretation of nature": In nature, each individual symbol plays innumerable parts, as each particle ... ...

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... game Everquest, and any reality my mind wants to make up. So in ending reality is what we make it. The Matrix and the Platonic Cave What is a "matrix-? The dictionary definition is a womb, the formative part of the animal's reproductive system; or, in more technological vein, a mold in which the printer's types, or gramophone records, and such, are shaped. The ... ...

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