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Show The theory is probably half art half science. Certainly it will take artistic skills to apply theory to practice. ¦D It is here that the art of the applied theory is at stake where the range of dynamics is up to the imagination. The science is in the basic description of space as concrete over the abstract if science is in method. Einstein rejected the idea of points lines and planes which is where the continumorph has its beginning in science: We can only say that Euclidian geometry deals with things called "straight lines," to each of which is ascribed the property of being uniquely determined by two points situated on it. The concept "true" does not tally with assertions of pure geometry, because by the word "true" we are we are eventually in the habit of designating always the correspondence with a "real" object; geometry, however, is not concerned with the relation of the ideas involved in it to objects of experience, but only with the logical connections of these ideas amoung themselves. (25) This idea is the rejection of architecture in one feld swoop and makes a fraud of the entire history of man's building. Bertrand Russell had a similar idea: It seems that all natural processes show a fundamental discontinuity whenever they can be measured with sufficient preecision. (26) The continumorph is the analogue to the reality of discontinuous -52- |