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Numbers Are The Product Of Counting. Quantities Are The Product Of Measurement. This Means That Numbers Can Conceivably Be Accurate Because There Is A Discontinuity Between Each Integer And The Next. Between Two And Three There Is A Jump. In The Case Of Quantity, There Is No Such Jump; And Because Jump Is Missing In The World Of Quantity, It Is Impossible For Any Quantity To Be Exact. You Can Have Exactly Three Tomatoes. You Can Never Have Exactly Three Gallons Of Water. Always Quantity Is Approximate.

Logic Is A Poor Model Of Cause And Effect.

But The Myth Of Power Is, Of Course, A Very Powerful Myth, And Probably Most People In This World More Or Less Believe In It. It Is A Myth, Which, If Everybody Believes In It, Becomes To That Extent Self-validating. But It Is Still Epistemological Lunacy And Leads Inevitably To Various Sorts Of Disaster.

The Major Problems In The World Are The Result Of The Difference Between How Nature Works And The Way People Think.

It Is Of First-class Importance That Our Answer To The Riddle Of The Sphinx Should Be In Step With How We Conduct Our Civilisation, And This Should In Turn Be In Step With The Actual Workings Of Living Systems.