This is a unique volume by a unique scientist, which combines conceptual, formal, and engineering approaches in a way that is rarely seen. Its core is the relation between ways of learning and knowing on the one hand and different modes of time on the other. Partial Boolean logic and the associated notion of complementarity are used to express this relation, and mathematical tools of fundamental physics are used to formalize it. Along the way many central philosophical problems ...
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Part I Knowledge: Introduction.- Boolean Descriptions.- Non-Boolean Descriptions.- Rationality and Creativity.- Modes of Knowing in Mathematics.- Bottom-Up Approaches in ...
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Hans Primas was professor of chemistry at ETH in Zurich, but also pursued his strong interests in psychology and philosophy, partly inspired by the work of C. G. Jung ...