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	"Vital" is an adjective qualifying whatever pertains to the initiation and control of activity by living forms, as distinct from what the external operation of material causes initiates and determines. The familiar contrast between the natural sciences and the human sciences, with the former relying on causal explanation and the latter on cycles of interpretation, is closely related to the distinction advanced here between the mechanical and the vital. In both cases, the contrast illuminates the difference between the causal determination of factual states and the meaningful interpretation of significant happenings. The distinction drawn by the polarity of the mechanical and the vital may be less problematic than that between the natural and the human, however.		"Vital" is an adjective qualifying whatever pertains to the initiation and control of activity by living forms, as distinct from what the external operation of material causes initiates and determines. The familiar contrast between the natural sciences and the human sciences, with the former relying on causal explanation and the latter on cycles of interpretation, is closely related to the distinction advanced here between the mechanical and the vital. In both cases, the contrast illuminates the difference between the causal determination of factual states and the meaningful interpretation of significant happenings. The distinction drawn by the polarity of the mechanical and the vital may be less problematic than that between the natural and the human, however.
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	~~1. See Marshall McLuhan, Understanding Media: The Extensions of Man (Cambridge: The MIT Press, 1964, 1994) passim, esp. pp. 7-21.~~

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Robbie at 18:55, 27 April 2025

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	<p>~~For~~ many years, I~~'ve~~		<p>As far back as I can remember, I have struggled to find the words to say what I want to say. What can and should I say, if anything? What do I think, actually? How can I express it? Where do the words come from? Will they express what I want to say? Will the person to whom I speak grasp what I intend to say? Am I uttering meaningless words, mindlessly by convention, deceptively with gile, foolishly with abandon? I have long sensed that much many-sided intellection takes place as my emerging intentions take expressive form. These proclivities lead me to write with a labored diction and to break my flow of speech with pauses, unexpected stops, followed by restarts on a slightly altered course.</p>

			<p>Living and working over the years, habitually questioning how perception and expression in their many forms mediate the interactions between thinking and acting, I have begun to question whether some very basic linguistic usages may give rise to very widely-shared misunderstandings that impede efforts to think clearly and judge effectively in important spheres of human experience.

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Robbie at 16:16, 25 April 2025

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The perceived possibilities for use that an agent recognizes in an object or situation1.

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