"Let a barb in the sign indicate the direction of the change."
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George Spencer Brown
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George Spencer Brown
@LawsofForm
Mathematician, consulting engineer, psychologist, educational consultant and practitioner, consulting psychotherapist, author, and poet.
UK Beigetreten Nisan 2009
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"Call any such change a step.
Let a sign
⇀
stand for the words
is changed to."
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"In any expression, let any arrangement be changed for an equivalent arrangement."
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"In general, let injunctions be contracted to any degree in
which they can still be followed".
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"… be contracted to the one injunction (of mixed intent) below."
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"Let the four injunctions (two of constructive intent, two of conventional intent) above…"
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Second canon. Contraction of reference
1. Construct a cross.
2. Mark it with c.
3. Let c be its name.
4. Let the name indicate the cross.
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"Call the space s pervading an arrangement a, whether or not a is the only arrangement pervaded by s, the pervasive space of a."
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"Pervasive space. Let any given space s(n) be said to pervade any arrangement in which s(n) is the shallowest space."
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"Call the crosses standing under any cross c, written or
unwritten, the crosses pervaded by the shallowest space in c."
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"Unwritten cross. Suppose any s(0) to be surrounded by an unwritten cross."
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"Let any cross standing in the shallowest space in c be said
to stand under, or to be covered by, c."
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"Let any cross standing in any space in a cross c be said to be
contained in c."
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"Call the space reached by no crossing from s the shallowest space in a."
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"Call a space reached by the greatest number of inwards crossings from S a deepest space in a."
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… call the number n of crosses that must be crossed to reach a space s(n) from s the depth of s(n) with regard to s."
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