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+## Rough Notes
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+## Quotes
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+## Questions
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+## Synthesis
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 ## Questions
 - Have we kneecapped ourselves through rigid classification, and artificial specialization?
+- Are these contradictions? Discuss:
+    - The Composition Law:
+        > The whole is more than the sum of its parts.
+    - The Decomposition Law:
+        > The part is more than a fraction of the whole
+    - Are they? If the "part" were less than the fraction of the whole, how could the whole possibly be more than the sum of its parts?
+    - But then, all the parts together must be greater than the whole
+    - But the whole is greater than the sum of all parts...
+    - I say it's flawed to distinguish whole and part. The arithmetic doesn't work out because they're necessarily interconnected.
 
 
 ## Quotes