Edelman (1992: 35):
The most ruthless and skeptical of the empiricists, Hume, concluded that no knowledge could be secure given that it is all based on sense impressions. Even scientific knowledge appeared to be shaken by his analysis of cause and effect as no more than mental correlation based on the repetition of these sense impressions. But as we will see later, sense impressions are not the issue; the biology of mind involves much, much more.
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From the perspective of SFL theory, all knowledge, including relations of cause, is meaning construed of experience. Scientific knowledge is the reconstrual of (first-order) meaning as (second-order) 'meaning about meaning', the reconstrual of phenomena as metaphenomena, analogous to the reconstrual of a landscape as a map.
On the other hand, the uncertainty of meanings, as arguable propositions, is a feature of the interpersonal dimension of semiosis, and metaphors of modality suggest that all projected meaning is probabilistic.
I think
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that
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‘s
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true
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Modality: probability
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Subject
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Finite
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Complement
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Mood
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The probabilistic nature of meaning-making, semogenesis, is borne out by the two-slit experiment of quantum physics which demonstrates that, at the very limits of perception, observed particle frequencies (meaning as instances) vary according to the probabilities of the system (meaning as potential).
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