Autonomy in a Social Setting:

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  1. “Boundaries” are inherently paradoxical, as they’re “injunctions to make distinctions”. (Laws of form). A constructing a distinction (or distinguishing a construction), both constructs distinguisher and distinguishes constructs. So it’s not only a Russian doll, but also a Russian doll making a Russian doll maker.

    the trick here is to understand – construct – that nothing can be constructed from nothing, so something can only construct itself. Like “Laws of Form” shows: time divides and “creates”. (I suddenly notice that “vide” can also mean “empty”. Di-viding invents itself.).

    The “worker” in your picture “works” at every “level”: a team member works, as does a team manager, as does …. a civilian, a politician,…. There’s workimg for every-one.

    The structure of a Model accounts for its usefulness. “A ship is a model of the sea”, because her (!) structure enables us to go fishing. Also, a ship offers choices: she can be used for various other – even unintended by the constructor – purposes.

    The same holds for using metaphors, the usefulness follows its structure. Now, the thing is, in language we implicitly limit the meaning of a metaphor to the (supposed) intention of the sender. This limits the usefulness of language to carry over meaning.

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