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In tetrad form, the artefact is seen to be not netural or passive, but an active logos or utterance of the human mind or body that transforms the user and his ground.

— Marshall McLuhan Laws of Media: The New Science (with Eric McLuhan) (1988)

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Human perception is literally incarnation.

Logos is the formal cause of the kosmos and all things, responsible for their nature and configuration.

Laws of Media: The New Science (with Eric McLuhan) (1988)

The laws of the media, in tetrad form, bring logos and formal cause up to date to reveal analytically the structure of all human artefacts.

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All words, in every language, are metaphors.

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As Innis got more insight he abandoned any mere point of view in his presentation of knowledge.

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