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1 Provocations:
"For out of olde feldes, as man seith,
Cometh al this newe corn, froe yeer to yere;
And out of olde bokes, in good feith,
Cometh al this newe science that men lere." - Geoffrey Chaucer (1340? - 1400) 'The Parlement of Foules'
"It seems that the human mind has first to construct forms independently before we can find them in things. Kepler's marvelous achievement is a particularly fine example of the truth that knowledge cannot spring from experience alone, but only from the comparison of the inventions of the mind with observed fact." - Albert Einstein, "Johannes Kepler" in Ideas and Opinions (New York : Crown, 1954), 266
"The truly 'creative' aspect of language resides not in its 'infinite generative capacity' but in cycles of production and comprehension mediated by a mind capable of reflecting upon the multiple meanings attachable to an utterance, meanings that need not have been present in the thought that gave rise to an utterance but which became available through self-comprehension (or deep interpretation of another's utterance) and can lead to a new thought to be expressed and re-interpreted, and so on indefinitely" - H S Straight (quoted in 'Consciousness Explained' Dennett, 1991)
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