The Meaning of Meaning
@inproceedings{Peterson2007TheMO, title={The Meaning of Meaning}, author={Jordan B. Peterson}, year={2007} }
The world is too complex to manage without radical functional simplification. Meaning appears to exist as the basis for such simplification. The meaning that guides functional simplification may be usefully considered as consisting of three classes. The first class consists of meanings of the determinate world. These are meanings based in motivation, emotion, and personal and social identity. First class meanings are grounded in instinct and tend, at their most abstract, towards the dogmatic or…
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