from: The revolution of everyday life ("Traite de savoir-vivre a l'usage des jeunes generations"), by Raoul Veneigem, 1965, Gallimard 1967. Translation by John Fullerton and Paul Sieveking, 1972. p.24-25.

The WATERSHED here refers to the transitional period between the Powell Memorandum of 1971, and the full commercialization of the internet in 1995. In the middle of this, the IBM-Microsoft contract of 1980 delivered both the platform and the template for neo-corporatism to drive the SEMIOTIC revolution that has transformed the relationships individuals have to one another, as well as to every type and scale of social organization, whether in education, commerce, law, finance, health, or government.  Also at this time, in 1977 scientists at Exxon discovered anthropogenic climate change. The WATERSHED marks the beginning of the Second Gilded Age.

Immediately below, is the text of the covering letter sent on 6 June 1978, by James Black, a scientist working in the Products Research Division of the Exxon Research and Engineering Co., to the vice-president of the company, Frank Turpin, and to the members of the Exxon Corporation Management committee, together with a summary and transcript of the presentation on anthropogenic global warming which he had made to them a year earlier.PDF The two excerpts, below, are taken from the second paragraph of that summary. They encapsulate it, the transcript, and the research both then and now, 50 years later.

The documents are published on the website, Inside Climate News. (emphases added)

EXXON RESEARCH AND ENGINEERING COMPANY June 6, 1978. THE GREENHOUSE EFFECT Mr. F. G. Turpin, Vice President Exxon Research and Engineering Co. .. Dear Frank: The review of the Greenhouse Effect which I presented to the Exxon Corporation Management committee last July used only vu-graphs, without a prepared text. Last month, I had the opportunity to present an updated version of this talk to PERCC. The attached text was dictated shortly afterward to satisfy requests for a written version of the talk from people who had not heard the presentation last July. Also attached is a summary. Sincerely, J. F. Black, Products Research Division Exxon Research and Engineering Co.

THE GREENHOUSE EFFECT SUMMARY The C02 content of the atmosphere has been monitored since 1957 at two Locations, the Mauna Loa Observatory, Hawaii and the South Pole. These and other shorter studies show that CO2 is increasing. If the increase is attributed to the combustion of fossil fuels, it can be calcuLated that the CO2 content of the atmosphere has already been raised by about 10 to 15% and that slightly more than half of the C02 released by fossil fueL combustion is remaining in the atmosphere. Assuming that the percentage of the CO2 remaining in the atmosphere will stay at 53% as fossil fuel consumption increases, one recent study predicts that in 2075 A.D., CO2 concentration will peak at a level about twice what could be considered normal. This prediction assumes that fossil fuel consumption will grow at a rate of 2% per year until 2025 A.D. after which it will follow a symmetrical decrease. This growth curve is close to that predicted by Exxon's Corporate Planning Department. ...What is considered the best presently available climate model for treating the Greenhouse Effect predicts that a doubling of the C02 concentration in the atmosphere would produce a mean temperature increase of about 2'C to 3'C over most of the earth. The model also predicts that the temperature increase near the poles may be two to three times this value.

A story requires an established lexicon to define its words, their application and culture. A paradigm is a lexicon of 'stories'. The one here concerns the origin of societies and individuals; its stories are about words and meaning; signs, language and culture; learning and development. It is multi-scalar.

The four core FRAMES that set it out coextend, like the layers of a map or matrices of television screens. Rather than presenting chapters of a story, each of them presents an elementary perspective which, when combined with the others, forms the whole.

From these general outlines, hyperlinks allow the content of the site to be unfolded to the more detailed texts that validate them, and folded back again as required.

Remote viewing (television) describes the function of screens in an electronic device. The images displayed on these screens are served to the devices as encoded files. These are then 'interpreted' according to the operating system for the screen which is provided by the manufacturer of the device. The codes for the images describe them by reducing them into several partial views, for instance, of red, and green, and blue. These can then be recombined to form images that can be recognized.

As coding technologies have developed, both the interpretative capacity and the resolution of devices has grown. This has allowed them to deliver illusions of reality that are both increasingly convincing and gripping.

In the post-modern world, the delusion of separateness that Einstein described  can be understood to be a product of the VIRTUALITY our technology created. Rather than being simply ANTHROPOCENTRIC and reductionist, it has created a separation from both society and self. 

multi-scalar

Learning and development are multi-scalar; characteristics common in some form to all BEINGS, from viruses to multicellular organisms and societies.

Through the lens of biosemiosis, the paradigm sets out the ONTOGENY of body-mind; the development of embodied cognition. Little, if anything, in it is new,  it simply brings existing knowledge into an holistic evolutionary FRAME. However, encompassing both psychology and sociology, by implication it then involves parenting, care, education, medicine and psychiatry, as well as the interactions of these with the social COMPLEX of law, governance, and business. 

Neither The Free Dictionary (the American Heritage, Collins, and Random House Kernerman Webster dictionaries), Britannica, nor Wikipedia, at the time of writing, carried any definition or general information on the term, multi-scalar. Yet despite this seemingly authoritative silence, the term, multi-scalar, is widely used. 

What is meant by the term here is, as referred to in the Wikipedia article, Multiscale modeling or multiscale mathematics,  dealing with problems that have important features at multiple scales of time and/or space, referring to the nature of the matter under observation rather than to its quantification.

Apart perhaps from its particular application of holism..

multi-scalar examples

Gender, Migration, and the Work of Care: A Multi-Scalar Approach to the Pacific Rim, edited by Sonya Michel, Professor Emerita of History, American Studies and Women's Studies at the University of Maryland, USA, and Ito Peng, Professor and Canada Research Chair in Global Social Policy in the Department of Sociology, University of Toronto, Canada. 

Towards a Multi-scalar Methodology: The Challenges of Studying Social Transformation and International Migration, Rebecca Williamson, University of Sydney, Australia. 

Temperature-Mortality Relationships in Brazil: A Multi-Scalar Distributed Lag Non-Linear Model Framework Integrating Climatic, Urban, and Socioeconomic Dimensions, 2026, Alindomar Lacerda Silva, National Institute for Space Research, Scott Sheridan, ResearchGate. 

Beyond ethnographic scriptocentrism: Modelling multi-scalar processes, networks, and relationships, Alain Mueller, 2016. Sage Journals. 

Indigenous Peoples and Multiscalar Environmental Governance: The Opening and Closure of Participatory Spaces. 2022, Maria-Therese Gustafsson, Almut Schilling-Vacaflor. Global Environmental Politics. 

Relational Multiscalar Analysis: A Comparative Approach to Migrants within City-Making Processes, Ayse Caglar, & Nina Glick Schiller. Taylor and Francis, 2021. 

The main interest in life and work is to become someone else that you were not in the beginning. If you knew when you began a book what you would say at the end, do you think that you would have the courage to write it?

paradigm - a model, or theoretical framework.

The meanings commonly inferred for words that are EMPHASIZED are ANTHROPOCENTRIC, while those they carry here are holistic. When styled in red they link to more detailed information.

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As used here the meaning, of holism, is after that given in the Collins Dictionary, Concerned with and emphasizing the importance of the whole and the interdependence of its parts, rather than with an analysis of the whole as separate parts.

A critique is not a matter of saying that things are not right as they are. It is a matter of pointing out what kinds of assumptions, what kinds of familiar, unchallenged, unconsidered modes of thought, the practices that we accept rest on.

From: Tao Te Ching, 70, Lao Tzu, 300 BCE, translated by Stephen Addiss and Stanley Lombardo, 1993, Hackett Publishing Company, Inc.

abduction.

The truth is that the whole fabric of our knowledge is one matted felt of pure hypothesis confirmed and refined by induction. Not the smallest advance can be made in knowledge, beyond the stage of vacant staring, without making an abduction at every step. 

The journey that led to the paradigm on this site might be called one of ABDUCTION. Though some philosophers demur  the process may be understood as the framework of both inductive and deductive reasoning, as well as of the 'insight' of life. 

Inductive reasoning uses related observations to arrive at a general conclusion. This type of reasoning is common in descriptive science. 

The paradigm's four FRAMES may be said to reason inductively; FRAME B provides the predicate for FRAME C, both of these then making the argument for the conclusion that mirrored FRAMES D and E describe.

Descriptive (or discovery) science, which is usually inductive, aims to observe, explore, and discover, while hypothesis-based science, which is usually deductive, begins with a specific question or problem and a potential answer or solution that can be tested. The boundary between these two forms of study is often blurred and most scientific endeavors combine both approaches. 

Inductive reasoning might be said to address the probabilistic complexity of animate behaviour, and to be the foundation of science, while deductive reasoning, which is the foundation of mathematics, may be said to address the absolutes of theoretical and virtual reality.

The different relationships that inductive and deductive reasoning have with forecasting are used by some to distinguish between them; however, predictability is intrinsically limited  so appealing to any such differences seems only to blur their distinction.

Looking out my window this lovely spring morning, I see an azalea in full bloom. No, no! I don't see that; though that is the only way I can describe what I see. That is a Proposition, a sentence, a fact; but what I perceive is not proposition, sentence, fact, but only an image, which I make intelligible in part by means of a statement of fact. This statement is abstract; but what I see is concrete. I perform an abduction when I so much as express in a sentence anything I see. The truth is that the whole fabric of our knowledge is one matted felt of pure hypothesis confirmed and refined by induction. Not the smallest advance can be made in knowledge beyond the stage of vacant staring, without making an abduction at every step.

"Philosophers as well as psychologists tend to agree that abduction is frequently employed in everyday reasoning."  The difference between the definitions used by Pierce and those used by modernists appears to be that Pierce was referring to abstraction whereas modernists refer to cognition; the former relating to life generally, while the latter generally refers only to humans.

reasoning

The relationship between the three forms of reasoning can be seen as being their different focii on the cycle of the scientific method; OBSERVE, THEORIZE, TEST, repeat.

Inductive reasoning uses observation to arrive at conclusions that can then inform testing (OBSERVE, THEORIZE, TEST, repeat). Deductive reasoning takes theories and predicts their results (THEORIZE, TEST, OBSERVE), repeat). Elementary, abductive 'reasoning' converts sense data into abstractions that then guide action (OBSERVE, MODEL, ACT, repeat). 

Quotation extracts taken from The Process of Science, and Scientific Reasoning, 1.2: The Science of Biology - Scientific Reasoning, by LibreTexts Biology. 

Quotation from Inductive Logic, Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy. 

science

The whole of science is nothing more than a refinement of everyday thinking.    Albert Einstein.

Science can essentially be represented as a learning loop comprised of three elementary stages that rely on reasoning to make sense:

A similar learning process⁠ partners selection to drive the evolution of life:

Science is an elementary practice; scientism is a belief. Eugenics, and the Holocaust it drove, are stark reminders of the dangers of not recognizing the distinction.

biophysicality

If we accept as unavoidabe that all descriptions of the ineffable are metaphorical;  and if creationist and anthropocentric teleologies and their concepts of the soul are set aside;  then, BEINGS can be defined as 'vehicles' of life and LIFE inferred recursively.

Rather than merely 'wet' physical entities, BEINGS are BIOPHYSICAL EXPRESSIONS, organized and animated by the interpretations their BIOSEMIOTIC systems make of their external and internal environments.

Any psychological construct requires a BIOPHYSICAL correlate in order to exist; every BIOPHYSICAL construct requires a psychological correlate in order to survive. In actuality then, psychology refers to a BEING's META-BIOLOGICAL expression.

PERCEPTIONS, attributes of BIOSEMIOTIC systems that in humans are considered as awareness, consciousness, EGO and mind, are generated from information that the SENSES of a BEING recognize in the NOUMENA which it encounters — in the same way as PERCEPTIONS of colour are.

wellness

In an individual, the development of wellness and illness is a function of the interaction between their BIOPHYSICAL actuality and their environment.  It is this system as a whole that is impacted by any medical or psychological interventions, and any social support and care, that the individual receives or is privated of.

Research into cancer and other diseases has long since identified the existence and primacy of METABIOPHYSICAL systems, and the need to address these as a whole; however, despite the work of the WHO modern societies and their BROADCASTING systems appear obdurate, discounting 'holism' and instead promoting increasingly reductionist models.

MEANING, refers here to that which a BEING PERCEIVES from the EXPRESSION of a NOUMENON. Developed and encoded through the FRAME of an individual's ONTOGENY it is then inheritable,  and different FRAMES inevitably arise. BEINGS in social groups, less able to recognize and reconcile these FRAMES are at greater risk of being misinformed or deceived.

The short term success of an individual can be seen as insufficient to guide their future actions. Locusts, for instance, are successful as individuals, but find themselves unable to escape developing from this peaceful co-existence into the cannibalistic war of a swarm. 

virtuality refers to abstractions of actuality that then pre-process EXPERIENCE.

Inherited and learnt by EXPERIENCE, our PERCEPTION is the recognition of what we can see; seeing what we expect to see, we then construct and integrate the data our eyes and other senses are capable of registering. 

The entire sequence of events involved in the development of an individual BEING over its lifespan. 

The term BEING, applies here to all forms of LIFE, whether multicellular (humans, ants, plants, etc.); unicellular (bacteria, archaea, algae, etc.); or the MODULAR societies of slime molds, jellyfish, ants, humans, deer, etc.

BIOSEMIOSIS is a recursive process, enabling BEINGs to generate MEANING by aligning their PERCEPTION of their current EXPERIENCE with what they can RECOGNIZE from the EXPERIENCES previously EMBODIED in themselves, or externally, by themselves or through inheritance. ENDOSEMIOSIS and EXOSEMIOSIS then refer, respectively, to the RECOGNITION of internal and external NOUMENA..

BIOSEMIOSIS is a recursive process, enabling BEINGs to generate MEANING by aligning their PERCEPTION of their current EXPERIENCE with what they can RECOGNIZE from the EXPERIENCES previously EMBODIED in themselves, or externally, by themselves or through inheritance. ENDOSEMIOSIS and EXOSEMIOSIS then refer, respectively, to the RECOGNITION of internal and external NOUMENA..

A metatransition is a metasystem transition to EITHER a more complex OR a simpler structure, ultimately leading to a transitory OR a permanent evolutionary transition in individuality.

Here, metasystem refers to a general, rather than to a restricted, controlling or organizational system which maintains the homeostasis necessary for the functioning of a system and its subsystems.

functioning, disability and health

First drafted by the WHO in 1980,  the International Classification of Functioning (the International Classification of Functioning, Disability and Health), is an holistic overview of wellness and illness. Despite its publication, and the fact that today biopsychosocial models are taught in medical schools, the significance and impact on social organization and its institutions of these models might appear to citizens to have been relatively minimal — perhaps because of the powerful lobbies that work to promote a fundamentalist belief in scientific reductionism.

After nine years of international revision efforts coordinated by the World Health Organization (WHO), the World Health Assembly on May 22, 2001, approved the International Classification of Functioning, Disability and Health and its abbreviation of "ICF." This classification was first created in 1980 ... by WHO to provide a unifying framework for classifying the consequences of disease. ... Functioning and disability are viewed as a complex interaction between the health condition of the individual and the contextual factors of the environment as well as personal factors. The picture produced by this combination of factors and dimensions is of "the person in his or her world." The classification treats these dimensions as interactive and dynamic rather than linear or static. It allows for an assessment of the degree of disability, although it is not a measurement instrument. It is applicable to all people, whatever their health condition. The language of the ICF is neutral as to etiology, placing the emphasis on function rather than condition or disease. It also is carefully designed to be relevant across cultures as well as age groups and genders, making it highly appropriate for heterogeneous populations. 

I'd like people to reconceptualize cancer as a biological event that triggers stress responses affecting how the disease progresses... Managing those stress responses by adopting healthy eating and exercise habits, getting a good night's sleep, and finding good emotional and social support, should be regarded as much a part of cancer treatment as chemotherapy or radiation.

The article, from which the quote was taken, although apparently accessible in 2024, has now been taken down by Stanford Medicine. The new article (at Stanford research builds link between sleep, cancer progression) still refers to Spiegal's work, but the expurgated quote there now, intentionally or otherwise, seems to downplay the research and to distance Stanford from Spiegal and the view he expressed.

life — a recursive definition.

Life is the condition of BEINGS.

A BEING is descended from a BEING.

I am a BEING.

It is as correct or incorrect to say that hormones create love as it is to say that love creates hormones. Love is not definable in the way that hormones are; they are terms in different reference frames.

Aristotle and Plato wrote of signs and symbols over two thousand years ago; signs in the world of nature and symbols in human culture. The terms semiosis and, its study, semiotics, come from the Ancient Greek for 'a sign, mark, or token'. 

A thousand years later, symbols were understood to be just a type of sign, and semiosis is now understood as the process by which any word, object, symbol, or nonverbal cue is recognized as being a sign.noumena

Semiosis, from the greek, semio-, meaning sign, plus suffix -sis, equivalent to -ing  , literally meaning sign-action, is the recognition of noumena as having significance — as being, in some form or manner, signs.

For a being, anything can be a sign.  In whatever manner then, all beings are signs and make signs that are recognized by others. Life and semiosis are co-extensive.

Despite its simple, ancient roots, Nazi eugenicists claimed semiotics as the scientific foundation of their ideology. Semiosis however, is ubiquitous and elementary whereas xenophobia is an illness.

Nazi scientists believed there was a one-to-one, fixed relationship between the biological characteristics of individuals and their emergent characteristics. But organisms are not simple biological machines. Their ontogeny and emergent qualities develop as a consequence of interactions with their environment, their biological components, including DNA, only statistically approximating physical traits and racial origins. Race is a category of convenience, not an absolute class of discrete individuals.

In classifying organisms, biology often identifies patterns that seem to indicate a common underlying characteristic when in fact they do not —and vice-versa. Science can only address the behaviour of reality, especially in regard to multicellular organisms, such as human beings, through probabilistic explanations - the inferences that are made from statistical relationships that are deduced from data that has been observed. 

Reality is dynamic, every moment a new beginning, a new set of initial conditions. The infinitesimal differences between this one and that which preceded it, transforms its 'final' outcomes - as chaos theory demonstrates. The future evolves through probabilistic states; deterministic approaches have no ability to predict or define it. Our choices emerge from a system of inheritance but this system is made up of cultural as well as genetic components, between which information is exchanged via complex and diverse pathways. The Nazi's simplistic belief, that race could be an absolute measure of behaviour and preference, was merely incorrect.

Science is simple and absolute, neither human nor divine. It has no need or place for faith. Faith corrupts it.

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chaos

Chaos refers to the apparently random states of disorder and irregularity exhibited by complex, nonlinear, dynamical systems actually governed by interconnectedness, underlying patterns, and self-organization. While these systems are deterministic, their predictability is limited as it is is impossible to completely know their actual state at any point in time and the smallest difference in this from what has been assessed leads to behaviours that diverge exponentially over time from that foecasted —a characteristic often referred to as the Butterfly Effect.

Noumenon, is a Greek word meaning "that which is perceived".  It is the word Kant used to identify the thing-in-itself, the underlying reality that is then recognized by an observer as a SIGN. 

Kant referred to recognition of the thing-in-itself as perception. Here however, PERCEPTION is used to label one of the four stages in the process of BIOSEMIOSIS that is bootstrapped by RECOGNITION.

NOUMENA may function as SIGNS of themselves — as being rocks, or holes, or hands, etc., or as qualities that they are associated with — danger, green, food, etc. They may also signify things distinct from themselves — a woman may signify a mother; a sound may signify "Mum!", a river, or a phoneme; marks may signify words, or symbols like pi, or a drawing or photograph of a pie, or a pipe. or a pipe

Painting by Rene Magritte, Ceci n'est pas une pipe., 1929.

Hydrozoa show great diversity of lifestyle; some species maintain the polyp form for their entire life and do not form medusae at all.  Polyps of some species propagate vegetatively, forming colonies.. polymorphism occurs in colonies of some species of hydrozoans and anthozoans, the polyps being specialized for functions such as feeding, defense, and sexual reproduction. 

Ruppert, Edward E.; Fox, Richard, S.; Barnes, Robert D. (2004). Invertebrate Zoology, 7th edition. Cengage Learning. pp. 148-174; cited in Jellyfish, Taxonomy (list item: Staurozoa), Wikipedia..

Fautin, Daphne G. and Sandra L. Romano. 1997. Cnidaria. Sea anemones, corals, jellyfish, sea pens, hydra. Version 24 April 1997. http://tolweb.org/Cnidaria/2461/1997.04.24 in The Tree of Life Web Project, http://tolweb.org/.

Anthropic, etc, refer here to anthropocentrism,  a narcissistic belief that the human species is the central fact and final aim of a universe that must therefore be understood in terms of human experience, needs, and values. 

Human beings are spatially and temporally limited parts of the whole that we call "universe"; yet we experience ourselves and our feelings as separate from the rest, a kind of optical delusion of our consciousness. 

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Einstein spoke the refined German of the Bildungsbürgertum, a language characterized by its precision. It might the be reasonable to assume, as an inspection of Einstein's note also suggests, that his use of the word Täuschung (delusion) twice and Illusion once, was considered not careless.

 The German word Täuschung in the original note, meaning 'delusion' (JPG opens in a new tab).

Etymologically the word delusion implies an action, a deceiving, referring here to that suffered by human beings through our consciousness, through which we perceive a deceptive appearance, the illusion of being "separated from the rest".

Technically, delusion is a belief that, though false, has been surrendered to and accepted by the whole mind as a truth; illusion is an impression that, though false, is entertained on the recommendation of the senses or the imagination. Illusion (n.), developed in Church Latin from the late 14c. onwards to mean: a "deceptive appearance".

On delusion, and illusion; from the Online Etymology Dictionary. Retrieved: 4 October 2022.

science

The whole of science is nothing more than a refinement of everyday thinking.    Albert Einstein. 

Science is an elementary practice. Scientism is a belief. Eugenics and the Holocaust it drove are among the brutal consequences and stark reminders of not recognizing this distinction.

Hormone, from the Greek, hormon, meaning 'that which sets in motion'. 

from the Greek, akrasia, meaning 'loss of free will'; acrasins are signalling molecules, providing the function that hormones have, for instance, in humans.

frames

Here, a FRAME refers simply to a frame of reference; to the context that focuses the data it contextualizes or describes.

Any kind of LANGUAGE is a FRAME for the data it refers to and a CULTURE is a broader, environmental FRAME; a meta-LANGUAGE enabling meaning to be inferred from the verbal and non-verbal languages that evolve with it or within other CULTURES. 

false friends

Chinese consists of a single monosyllable for each word and often does not mark such grammatical features as tense or number. 

The accuracy of a translation is central to those who depend upon it but, although it may be possible in some way to say anything in any LANGUAGE, doing so is not easy. Exact translations are generally possible only for the simplest of statements, and the more dissimilar the CULTURES involved the more numerous, significant and masked false-friends of chance and semantics will be — as the meanings inferred are generated first and foremost by assumptions and beliefs. 

It is possible, for instance, to translate the complexity of mathematical calculus into the simple language of addition and subtraction. However, for accuracy, division and multiplication are required. Accurate translation, from one CULTURE to another, of the complex communications of human affairs consistently proves to be an ever receding goal — a dynamic the effect of which is to develop interpersonal engagement.

CULTURES, reflect the histories of their peoples, families and groups, and are as varied, intransigent, and as challenging to unravel as the psychologies of individuals are. Their languages have evolved to convey these histories, of trauma and privilege, and the wisdom, fears, and strategies their individuals have learned through the experiences of generations.

from the Translators' Preface, of Tao Te Ching, by Lao Tzu. Translated by Stephen Addis and Stanley Lombardo, Hackett Publishing Company, 1993.

False-friends can emerge, or arise by chance. Chance false-friends are words whose appearance is the same or similar in two or more languages but which have different meanings. Semantic false-friends are those whose meaning have diverged over time and distance. Semantic false-friends can be can be either full or partial.

partial [semantic] false friends, .. are those words that have several senses, some of which coincide in both languages while others do not. 

Partial semantic false-friends then, are fostered CULTURALLY rather than linguistically. They represent conscious divergences of belief, rather than accidents. These perhaps, carry the greatest risk of miscomprehension; and of this then snowballing. 

An example of the miscomprehensions that readily arise from partial semantic false-friends, is provided by The Withdrawal Agreement that governed the procedures to be followed by European Union Member States and the United Kingdom in the implementation of the UK's withdrawal from the EU.

A key provision of this Agreement was the process to be followed for notifying affected residents of the Agreement's impact on them personally and of any steps they needed to follow to confirm the rights it had safeguarded for them in the country of their residence. The most significant element of this provision then, was that it required its signatories to take all reasonable steps to inform affected residents of changes to their status, and of the country specific procedures that these residents would then need to follow. This provision, in Finnish however, allowed the Finnish government to understand they were required simply to announce the changes through commonly used channels; e.g. by posts on the Government's Facebook page and in Finnish newspapers; and that they were not required, for instance, to notify affected residents by post, or to CC them the information it sent to their agencies notifying them of the changes it had made to their status.

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The impact of this particular partial semantic false-friend may remind some of the Vogons, in the The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy by Douglas Adams, and of their communications with the people of Earth to notify them of the imminent demolition of their planet. .

from False friends: their origin and semantics in some selected languages. Pedro J. Chamizo Dominguez, Brigitte Nerlich, 2002, Journal of Pragmatics 34 (2002) 1833-1849. 

People of Earth, your attention, please. This is Prostetnic Vogon, Jeltz, of the Galactic Hyperspace Planning Council. As you will no doubt be aware, the plans for development of the outlying regions of the Galaxy require the building of a hyperspatial express route through your star system. And regrettably, your planet is one of those scheduled for demolition. The process will take slightly less than two of your Earth minutes. Thank you. ...There's no point in acting surprised about it! All the planning charts and demolition orders have been on display at your local planning department in Alpha Centauri for 50 of your Earth years, so you've had plenty of time to lodge any formal complaint and it's far too late to start making a fuss about it now. ... What do you mean you've never been to Alpha Centauri? Oh, for heaven's sake, mankind, it's only four light years away. You know, I'm sorry, but if you can't be bothered to take an interest in local affairs, that's your own lookout. Energize the demolition beams.

Meta-language — a language used to describe or contextualize another language.

The prefix "meta-" is used here as it is used in the term meta-language — a language used to describe or contextualize another language.

Language: a system of arbitrary signals, symbols or signs, used to communicate information. 

Meaning: the sense or reference of an expression.

Semantic: of or relating to meaning. 

to communicate: to convey information through a system of arbitrary signals. 

to recognize: to know something as the same as, or belonging to the same class as, something known before. 

from the poem The Stare's Nest by My Window, published in Meditations In Time Of Civil War (1922-23), by William Butler Yeats — on the Irish Civil War.

definition

corporatism

the organization of a state on a corporative basis. — Collins English Dictionary.

the principles, doctrine, or system of corporative organization of a political unit, as a city or state. [1885-90] corporatist. — Random House Kernerman Webster's College Dictionary.

the control of a state or organization by large interest groups; "individualism is in danger of being swamped by a kind of corporatism" — TFD Thesaurus, Based on WordNet 3.0, Farlex clipart collection.

corporative

of a state organized into and governed by corporations of individuals involved in any given profession, industry, etc. — Collins English Dictionary.

of or relating to a government or political system in which the principal economic functions, such as banking, industry, labor, and government, are organized as corporate entities. — American Heritage Dictionary.

of or pertaining to a political system under which the principal economic functions, as banking, industry, and labor, are organized as corporate entities. — Random House Kernerman Webster's College Dictionary.

The first Gilded Age, from the 1870s to 1890s, was named after Mark Twain's novel, The Gilded Age: A Tale of Today. This satirized the excesses and societal problems which had arisen from the laissez-faire capitalism, political corruption, and wealth inequality of the times. A second Gilded Age, named then for its resemblance to the first, is considered to have begun between the 1980s and 2010s; and to continue to the present day.

The narrative of a second Gilded Age erroneously suggests that the current dynamics are repeating those of the late nineteenth century. (But) these are profoundly different historical moments. ... the "before" and "after" to a lengthy period when the cruelest characteristics of corporate capitalism were temporarily constrained. The late nineteenth century saw the ascent of serious efforts to rein in the power of the new capitalism and force it to bow down to the needs of civil society. During the late twentieth and early twenty-first centuries, we are experiencing the decline of that effort as capitalists and their ideological and political supporters push to see how far they can go to ensure the unchallenged hegemony of corporate and property rights. The slow climb toward a more humane capitalism and the rapid descent away from it constitute two very different experiences.

The nature of these differences, between the first and second Gilded Ages, had also been examined by historian Steve Fraser, in 2015.

What fueled the resistance to the first Gilded Age, [argues Fraser), was the fact that many Americans had a recent memory of a different kind of economic system, whether in America or back in Europe. Many at the forefront of the resistance were actively fighting to protect a way of life, whether it was the family farm that was being lost to predatory creditors or small-scale artisanal businesses being wiped out by industrial capitalism. Having known something different from their grim present, they were capable of imagining — and fighting for — a radically better future. It is this imaginative capacity that is missing from our second Gilded Age.