uA language is composed of a finite number
of letters, sounds, and words, but creates infinite potentialities for the
expression of meaning.
uSimilarly, organizing field-patterns of
significance are trans-finite in character,
allowing for infinite forms of expression.
uThese field-patterns or morphic fields can
no more be reduced to their manifestation in experiential phenomena or morphic
units than can the organizing syntactic patterns of a language be
reduced to their expression in a finite set of sentences or linguistic
forms.
uNor, can they be reduced to physical laws
or syntactic rules formalized or formulated in an analytic meta-language – for the
latter it itself but one finite, formed expression of the very patterns it
seeks to identify.
uThe same organizing pattern of
significance can find expression in a natural or psychological phenomenon, in a
pattern of thought, emotion or behaviour, in a musical composition, poem or
painting, a waking or dream event.
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