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If the purpose* is to express such ‘soft’, fuzzy or woolly phenomenal sequences in a form suitable for some sort of quantitative manipulation, then it is open to the usual objection: that the impracticability of precisely measuring the phenomena of the sequence will render the quantitative results subject to arbitrary distortion – or in other words, if you get it right, it was probably because your judgement in assessing and quantifying the parameters was so good that you didn’t actually need to quantify them at all, and could have continued to work by qualitative methods.

*[of Professor Thom’s Catastrophe Theory – see last previous entry]

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