How Meaning Moves

Why this matters here

Kevin Steffensen’s How Meaning Moves argues that summaries are compressed meaning traveling through groups—budgets, designs, meeting notes, and ordinary judgments that select what belongs in the foreground. Trust Beyond Similarity cites that account when a summary forgets it is a summary and each party treats its compression of the same situation as the whole. The companion book theorizes meaning-in-motion; Trust Beyond Similarity asks what trust requires when people inhabit different compressions of one shared problem.