James Fairbairn
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Bounded Applicability (most things have value if we understand the boundaries within which they are valid) and Coherent Heterogeneity (embracing as much diversity as we can without fragmenting or becoming incoherent).
“Time does not give one much leeway: it thrusts us forward from behind, blows us through the narrow tunnel of the present into the future. But space is broad, teeming with possibilities, positions, intersections, passages, detours, U-turns, dead-ends, one-way streets. Too many possibilities, indeed.”
― Under the Sign of Saturn: Essays
― Under the Sign of Saturn: Essays
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