“To think straight, it is advisable to expect all qualities and attributes, adjectives, and so on to refer to at least two sets of interactions in time.”

— Gregory Bateson

Source: Mind and Nature, a necessary unity, 1988, p. 68

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English anthropologist, social scientist, linguist, visual … 1904–1980

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