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