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Quotes from Perspectives on the World: an interdisciplinary reflection — Diederik Aerts

born 1953 Belgium

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We continually speak of world views in the plural because a unique and monolithic world view - considering the immense complexity of reality - will remain an unattainable ideal.

Perspectives on the World: an interdisciplinary reflection (1995)

Although world views grow organic ly and historically, they can also be developed. The construction of world views is comparable to the work of cartographers in antiquity and in the Middle Ages. They mapped out the world on the basis of information from sailors, mer chants and explorers.

Perspectives on the World: an interdisciplinary reflection (1995)

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