Great stories are universal and universally meaningful.
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The purpose of stories is sense-making -- great stories echo experiences shared by all in the audience, and add a layer of meaning & depth to these universal experiences. In the very best stories, this layer of meaning also happens to be novel and unexpected.
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How do you distinguish "history" with "historiography"?
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Yes. They do more than just describe reality, they help us to find a new way of looking at it.
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An immediate corollary (and a great paper name,IMO): "Stories as a Rich Supervisory Signal"
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Postmodernism is anti-supervision in that interpretation
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