// Glossary
Uniqueness / One-time-ness
3 topics
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The Difference Between Turning a Stone into a Specimen and Encountering It in the Wild
The property of a wild encounter that can never be repeated. A specimen gains permanence but loses this one-time-ness.
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On How Stones of the Same Type Have Different Expressions
The one-time uniqueness of each individual created by nature. No two are exactly alike.
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On How Stones of the Same Type Have Different Expressions
The principle that nature never makes the same thing twice. The basis for why even stones of the same type never have the same expression.