Concept
sequence
2 writings
- to mean is to discard Meaning requires exclusion: to mean something is to discard its alternatives, not as a cost but as the act itself. Total retention — the lossless copy, Borges' Funes — produces not wisdom but stupor, because a memory that discards nothing says nothing.
- bedrock is sequence at the tempo of forgetting Universality is a local sequence masquerading as substrate through tempo mismatch — its particular history moves too slowly to read as change. The honest alternative treats universals as bedrock: particular, geological, reliable within their formation but not invariant.