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Description as Approximation

09/07/2026 by dialogika Leave a Comment

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If the world is unknowable, then every description of it is necessarily an approximation.

A description is not a representation, not a mirror, not a map. It is a relational stabilisation: a temporary configuration of meaning produced by a local condensation of consciousness interacting with the field of energy. Descriptions do not reveal the world; they reveal the structure of the one who describes.

They are projections of relational tension, not windows onto an external essence. Every description is therefore partial, fragile, and contingent. It is a gesture, not a revelation.

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