Metaphor

=== Selection as metaphor ===
Note the metaphorical usage and issues surrounding 'selection' by EpiCurus, Pierre Flourens, EpiCurus#Professor_Janet_on_Epicurus , http://scratchpad.wikia.com/wiki/Natural_Selection and how this relates to the Pattern or design binary opposites.
=== Majority ===
There is no such thing as a literal meaning, all of language functions solely as metaphor. Dictionaries document the majority usage. IN the majority of cases decision,selection,acts,produce,process are metaphors used to describe a pattern with a Purpose1. 
* The man selected the house on the right to destroy.(Purpose1)
* After scrambling the marbles in the bucket the man made a 'selection at random'. Random in this case is the metaphor for http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Probability_sampling (probability sampling, a Purpose1 driven activity. 
=== Minority ===
IN a minority of cases a Metaphor#Majority are used to express something in either the Pattern or design sense. 
* The tornado selected the house on the left to destroy. Tornado's don't have (Purpose1).
* The cat kicked over a bucket filled with alphabetic letters, scattering a 'random sampling' over the floor. No Purpose1.
Many dictionaries also lists selection's "biological" definition, but because Life1 itself isn't the defined in terms of their materialist premises, there can't be a definition of 'selection' in terms of the study of life(biology). Biology is defined as the Study of life.
=== Tautology notes ===
http://groups.google.com/group/tautology-notes/browse_frm/thread/893c5f2ed581a310/2d98dbdbbebdcedb#2d98dbdbbebdcedb
Private usenet group where I post notes on tautologies. Name: Tautology notes on Google groups.
=== Links ===
http://www.nature.com/nature/journal/v59/n1529/abs/059369a0.html
http://www.nybooks.com/articles/archives/2010/may/27/not-so-natural-selection/?pagination=false Lewontin
http://human-nature.com/dm/chap4.html
https://groups.google.com/forum/#!topic/tautology-notes/iTxfLtWBoxA  Notes on metaphors 
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