“Explanation must always grow out of description,but the description from which it grows will always
necessarily contain arbitrary characteristics.
All description, explanation, or representation is
necessarily in some sense a mapping of derivatives from the
phenomena to be described onto some surface or
matrix or system of coordinates.
Every receiving matrix, even a
language or tautological network of propositions,
will have its formal characteristic which will in
principle be distortive of the phenomena to be mapped onto it.”
— Gregory Bateson
Anthropologist / Systems Theorist (1904-1980)
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