The rehabilitation of order as a universal principle, however, suggested at the same time that orderliness by itself is not sufficient to account for the nature of organized systems in…
Continue ReadingFurthermore, order is a necessary condition for making a structure function. A physical mechanism, be it a team of laborers, the body of an animal, or a machine, can work…
Continue ReadingModem science, then, maintains on the one hand that nature, both organic and inorganic, strives towards a state of order and that man’s actions are governed by the same tendency.
Continue ReadingEntropy theory, on the other hand, is not concerned with the probability of succession in a series of items but with the overall distribution of kinds of items in a…
Continue ReadingVariety is more than a means of avoiding boredom, since art is more than an entertainment of the senses.
Continue ReadingIn many instances, order is apprehended first of all by the senses.
Continue ReadingMan’s striving for order, of which art is but one manifestation, derives from a similar universal tendency throughout the organic world; it is also paralleled by, and perhaps derived from,…
Continue ReadingNow equilibrium is the very opposite of disorder.
Continue ReadingOrder is a necessary condition for anything the human mind is to understand.
Continue ReadingThe absurd consequences of neglecting structure but using the concept of order just the same are evident if one examines the present terminology of information theory.
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