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The Eighteen Convergent Patterns

4. The same intellectual material redeployed across registers

The vocabulary travels, dressed for each room. Philosophy is not compartmentalised into the contexts that invite it; the same reflective vocabulary operates across registers that have nothing else in common.

The relational particulars through which this pattern first became visible remain private. This page stays with the form of the pattern and the interpretations it opens.

Read through the lenses

Aesthetic-linguistic

Heteroglossic-unity-with-substantial-coherence.

Why this lens appears here

Bakhtin · Eckert · Labov · Lakoff-Johnson

Ontological

Substantial unity of the underlying material.

Why this lens appears here

Heidegger · Sartre · Marion

Cybernetic-systems

System-invariants preserved across surface-variation.

Why this lens appears here

Maturana · Varela · Bateson · Wiener

Translational-multilingual

Benjamin’s task of the translator — preserving intention across surface.

Benjamin

Why this lens appears here

Steiner · Benjamin · Grosjean · Bialystok