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Below is a guest post by Robert Shackleton: Peter Dodds and coauthors have recently published research that proposes a significant shift in the essence-of-meaning framework, which traces its lineage back to Charles Osgood’s initial efforts to use dimension reduction to quantify human meaning. The paper, “Ousiometrics: The essence of meaning aligns with a power-danger-structure framework […]