“The eternal is omniembracing and permeative; and the temporal is linear. This opens up a very high order of generalizations of generalizations. The truth could not be more omni-important, although it is often manifestly operative only as a linear identification of a special-case experience on a specialized subject.”

— Buckminster Fuller

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1970s, Synergetics: Explorations in the Geometry of Thinking (1975), "Synergy" onwards

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