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Quotes from Laws of Form — G. Spencer-Brown

1923–2016 England

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We take as given the idea of distinction and the idea of indication, and that we cannot make an indication without drawing a distinction. We take, therefore, the form of distinction for the form.

Laws of Form (1969)

To teach pride in knowledge is to put up an effective barrier against any advance upon what is already known, since it makes one ashamed to look beyond the bounds imposed by one's own ignorance.

Laws of Form (1969)

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