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GOODMAN, NELSON
1906–1998
Ways of Worldmaking (The Layer Cake Pages)
Goodman: there are many worlds, made by many symbolic systems, and the question is not which is true but which works for what purpose. CoCA's Layer Cake Pages (§2.2.2) operationalize Goodman as institutional record-keeping. Each rewrite is a worldmaking. Prior worlds remain visible through the page. The archive is not one true history; it is the stack of worlds the institution has made and kept.