Sometimes the Online Etymological dictionary is worth working through carefully. I’ve been centering the word “sample” for a while now, using it, essentially, as a replacement for “sign” or “utterance,” so as to place language within the broader field of inquiry created by language. I don’t think there are many possible uses of “sign” or “utterance” where the replacement would impair the meaning and many where it would enrich it. “Sample,” though is just an offshoot of “example,” which adds the extremely important notion of a part that provides knowledge of the constitution of the whole. This makes “sample” central to science and inquiry, as Charles Sanders Peirce insisted in his assertion that all knowledge can be reduced to the relation between the sample and the population. I want to use the etymology of “example,” which I will “credit” to “sample,” to take the implications of this “substitution” a bit further:
The Sample as Our Donation to the Center
The Sample as Our Donation to the Center
The Sample as Our Donation to the Center
Sometimes the Online Etymological dictionary is worth working through carefully. I’ve been centering the word “sample” for a while now, using it, essentially, as a replacement for “sign” or “utterance,” so as to place language within the broader field of inquiry created by language. I don’t think there are many possible uses of “sign” or “utterance” where the replacement would impair the meaning and many where it would enrich it. “Sample,” though is just an offshoot of “example,” which adds the extremely important notion of a part that provides knowledge of the constitution of the whole. This makes “sample” central to science and inquiry, as Charles Sanders Peirce insisted in his assertion that all knowledge can be reduced to the relation between the sample and the population. I want to use the etymology of “example,” which I will “credit” to “sample,” to take the implications of this “substitution” a bit further: