Unconscious bias

{{a|philosophy|[[File:Humpty.jpg|450px|thumb|center|A “child of a child,” yesterday.}}

Un petit d’un petit

S’étonne aux Halles;
Un petit d’un petit
Ah! degrés te fallent. Indolent qui ne sort cesse
Indolent qui ne se mène
Qu'importe un petit
Tout gai de Reguennes.

—Luis d’Antin van Rooten, Mots D’Heures: Gousses, Rames, (1967)

To construe a meaning; to select a metaphor; to form a sentence in any language is to systematically deploy a certain narrative account over all others. To assign a certain meaning to a certain string of symbols is to actively discriminate in favour of that meaning over any others one could imaginatively construct.

The beauty of the cultural conventions around language is that they allow individuals who share those conventions to communicate but they are loose enough to allow miscommunication, and multiple meanings through the instrument of metaphor.