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Information on the site's publisher, the protection of your privacy, and the data stored locally on your device.
Site publisher
The website verisimilis.com is published in a personal capacity by Michel Magnen, philosopher and author of the essay Meaning and Distance.
For any question concerning the content of the site or its operation, you may use the contact form available on the author's page.
Hosting
The site is hosted by Neodomaine (France).
Intellectual property
The entire textual content of the site (the essay Meaning and Distance and the presentation texts) is the original work of Michel Magnen. The parts of the essay have been legally deposited on the following dates: 6 December 1994; 25 February 2000; 10 May 2004; 23 January 2006; 13 June 2007; 18 May 2009; 31 August 2010; 22 June 2016; 15 June 2020. They are protected by copyright, and, more generally, all related rights are reserved.
The poem Correspondences by Charles Baudelaire (1857) is in the public domain.
René Thom's letter of 21 December 1994 is reproduced with the kind permission of the directorship of the IHÉS, which published it in 2003 in the scholar's complete works.
Your data and your privacy
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Contact form
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External links
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Modifications
These notices may be updated as the operation of the site evolves. The date of the most recent update is given below.
Last updated: May 2026.