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Meaning and Measurement
Meaning is prior to science — not produced by inquiry but disclosed by it. From "up or down?" through Galileo's inclined plane and the Stern–Gerlach magnet to the meaning loop: why measurement forecloses, why faithful is not exhaustive, and why the measurement paradox dissolves once a geometry is distinguished from its projections.
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