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Many times, otherwise unrelated uses of the word ''reflection'' in the physical sciences can be suggestive. For example, reflection is one of the ways that a continuous appearing phenomenon can be brought into a form of interaction with itself and thereby to exhibit its nature as a pattern of activity with definite features and discrete characteristics. But metaphors like these can be kept from spinning out misleading clues only if the keys to understanding them as analogies can be found.
Many times, otherwise unrelated uses of the word ''reflection'' in the physical sciences can be suggestive. For example, reflection is one of the ways that a continuous appearing phenomenon can be brought into a form of interaction with itself and thereby to exhibit its nature as a pattern of activity with definite features and discrete characteristics. But metaphors like these can be kept from spinning out misleading clues only if the keys to understanding them as analogies can be found.
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I remembered a different sort of life, which was, for those who lived it, interesting and pleasant.
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<p>I remembered a different sort of life, which was, for those who lived it, interesting and pleasant.</p>
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With respect to the present project, that peers into its own appearances for the sake of seeing what logic lies in the rawness of experience, the analogous question is: How can the continuation of experience be conducted in such a way as to reveal within experience itself the conditions that connect its unconducted to its conducted course?
With respect to the present project, that peers into its own appearances for the sake of seeing what logic lies in the rawness of experience, the analogous question is: How can the continuation of experience be conducted in such a way as to reveal within experience itself the conditions that connect its unconducted to its conducted course?
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By contrast, this life was agonizingly boring and never pleasant.
By contrast, this life was agonizingly boring and never pleasant.
Daniel Quinn, Ishmael, [DQ, 12]
Daniel Quinn, Ishmael, [DQ, 12]