Before a system can act on something, it has to interpret it: turn raw material into a claim, a distinction, a name. This section holds the writing and encyclopedia entries most concerned with that step: how meaning gets made, and what "narrative" is actually doing when it does.
- PostBefore Requirements: The Primitive States of Meaning
- EncyclopediaCount-As
- EncyclopediaNarrative
The encyclopedia entry Narrative also appears under Literature & Imagination. It genuinely does both jobs: interpreting what occurred, and becoming the account an institution explains itself through afterward.