... not ecological, way of thinking about writing and writing about thinking. In this way, "metonymy" names or anticipates that sort of "radical empiricism" that emerges later in the philosophy of William James, a blending of science and metaphysics, matter and mind, that critics such as Steven Meyer and Joan Richardson have linked back to Emerson's natural history of intellect. Not unlike Thoreau's ... , but of language as organism. (34) For Steven Meyer, Emerson's redefinition of thought and mind as a dialectical process of relation marks a "radical empiricism" that he associates not only ...

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