[Redbook5:360-363][19880926:1545]{Catastrophe
Theory}[26th September 1988]
19880926.1545
Professor
Thom’s Catastrophe Theory,* so far as I can understand it, puzzles
me in ways which perhaps have implications for Circles Analysis.
Although he says that his theory or method is more qualitative than
quantitative, it seems to me that what it does – in applications in
the ‘soft’ sciences – is to make qualitative assumptions based
on observation about the way things happen, and then to apply to
these assumed phenomena or chains of events the ‘best fit’ from a
limited number of geometrical (topographical) forms which can be
represented in a quantitative fashion. But the usefulness of this is
not obvious.
*[See
[Redbook5:293][19880815:1628]{Cusps}[15th August 1988], including
main explanatory footnote** & diagram]
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