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Most people can read. Very few truly understand. In an age flooded with text, information, and opinion, literacy alone is no longer enough. We read endlessly, scroll constantly, and skim compulsively-yet meaning continues to collapse. Literacy and Meaning makes a powerful claim: Reading without the Trivium (grammar, logic, rhetoric) and the Quadrivium (arithmetic, geometry, music, astronomy) produces confusion rather than clarity. Drawing from the classical educational tradition, Mark Gordon Brown dismantles the modern assumption that literacy guarantees understanding. Instead, he shows how: - Words lose meaning without definition - Logic collapses when consequences are ignored - Rhetoric manipulates when unexamined - Number restores proportion and scale - Music trains attention through rhythm and delay - Astronomy teaches patience, orientation, and cycle The result is a society that reads more and understands less-where opinion replaces reasoning, and narrative replaces truth. This book is a restoration of intellectual structure. It offers a path for anyone who senses that learning has been reduced to content rather than comprehension, and that education has lost its foundation. If you've ever felt overwhelmed by information, frustrated by shallow discourse, or suspicious that literacy without structure is a form of dependency, Literacy and Meaning provides the missing architecture. Clear. Traditional. Philosophical. A defense of understanding itself.

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