Meaning is a much more fundamental notion than truth, indee… - Jay Lemke

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Meaning is a much more fundamental notion than truth, indeed more fundamental even than the notion of "reality" itself. The basic argument [of the essay] was that claims about truth or reality are meanings made by people according to patterns that they have learned, and that trying to understand how and why people make the meanings they do is more useful than fighting over the truth of their claims.

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(born 1946) is an American physicist, and professor of education at the University of Michigan.

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