Claude Lévi-Strauss’ book Myth and Meaning:
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“It is, I think, absolutely impossible to conceive of meaning without order. There is something very curious in semantics, that the word ‘meaning’ is probably, in the whole language, the word the meaning of which is the most difficult to find.” What does “to mean” mean?
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“To speak of rules and to speak of meaning is to speak of the same thing; and if we look at all the intellectual undertakings of mankind, as far as they have been recorded all over the world, the common denominator is always to introduce some kind of order.”
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“If this represents a basic need for order in the human mind and since, after all, the human mind is only part of the universe, the need probably exists because there is some order in the universe and the universe is not chaos.”
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“What I have been trying to say is that there has been a divorce – a necessary divorce – between scientific thought and what I have called the logic of the concrete, that is, the respect for and use of the data of the senses, as opposed to images and symbols and the like.”
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“We are witnessing the moment when this divorce will perhaps be overcome or reverted.”
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