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... space and time , and the categories of the intellect , such as substance , causality and others which are uni- versally committal for any rational being . Accordingly science , based upon these categories , is equally universal ...
... space and time , and the categories of the intellect , such as substance , causality and others which are uni- versally committal for any rational being . Accordingly science , based upon these categories , is equally universal ...
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... space . Thus " space , " for the Greeks , is the mè ón , that which is not . Consequently , Apollonian mathematics is a theory of visual- izable magnitudes , culminating in stereometry and geometric construction which , in occidental ...
... space . Thus " space , " for the Greeks , is the mè ón , that which is not . Consequently , Apollonian mathematics is a theory of visual- izable magnitudes , culminating in stereometry and geometric construction which , in occidental ...
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... space still has , as it were from time to non - jumping lemurs , a particular preponderance over the visual . Hence ... space .... Even time is represented , for good or wrong , in terms of the visualizable model of space ( p . 344 ) ...
... space still has , as it were from time to non - jumping lemurs , a particular preponderance over the visual . Hence ... space .... Even time is represented , for good or wrong , in terms of the visualizable model of space ( p . 344 ) ...
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The Meaning of General System Theory | 30 |
Science and Society | 51 |
Advances in General System Theory | 89 |
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