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On 17 Feb 2001, at 21:31, Wade T.Smith wrote:
> Hi Joe E. Dees -
>
> >And thus begins the endless journey into the semiotic web, where each
> >word meaning depends upon the meanings of a plethora of others,
> >endlessly.
>
> Which I'll graciously if hangheadedly admit to undertaking, perhaps
> all too often. But I remain somewhat confused about how one can talk
> about stability within dynamic processes, although, even the river's
> banks stay on their sides.
>
One may refer to stability not only as homeostasis, which is
remaining at a particular position, but also as homeorrhesis, which
is maintaining a particular rate of change.
>
> - Wade
>
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