Definition of Standardization
Standardization allows for routined global interaction and communication in a modern, globalized, and unsurveyable world. Where global culture is standardized, an initially problem-free orientation at any time and place is warranted. Standardized orientation signs, for example, abbreviate communication in global travel as well as in online communication by giving quick and unambiguous instructions. The standardized orientation language of English covers more complex needs of global orientation, while standardized orientation technologies like GPS simplify the geographic orientation. All of them create new leeways for new surprises by inviting you more and more to go on adventures in unfamiliar areas without ever being totally reliable themselves (chap. 16.2).
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The chapters and the page numbers refer to the book by Werner Stegmaier, What is Orientation? A Philosophical Investigation, translated by Reinhard G. Mueller (Berlin/Boston: De Gruyter, 2019).
XV, 1, 11-12, 130, 141, 187, 196, 198, 215-217, 224-226, 235-236, 239, 245-246, 251-253, 258-261
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