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On complementarity and beyond

Marc E. Carvallo

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Abstract

Introduction: On Issues in Complementarity and Beyond M.E. Carvallo. Part I: Complementarity, Epistemology, and Ontology. 1. Complementarity-Polarity-Dialectic-Autology: A Conceptual Analysis of Opposition and Unity A. Locker. 2. Complementarity as Challenge: Prefigurations in the History of Thinking H. Fischer-Barnicol. 3. Bohr's Idea of Complementarity J. Hilgevoord. 4. Complementarity and Our Knowledge of Nature H.J. Folse. 5. Ontological Implications of Complementarity K.V. Laurikainen. 6. Aspects of Complementarity R. Vallee. Part II: Complementarity: Alternative Views and Applications. 7. The Probability Trees of Quantum Mechanics: Probabilistic Meta-Dependence and Meta-Meta-Dependence M. Mugur-Schachter. 8. Complementarity in Language: Toward a General Understanding L. Loefgren. 9. Language, Incompleteness and Continuous Domains: Considerations of Complementarity of Abstractions H.W. Campbell, D.G. Stuart. 10. The Measurement Problem in Physics, Computation, and Brain Theories H.H. Pattee. 11. On the Double Architecture of the Semantic Memory P. Erdi, T. Groebler, P. Marton. 12. Axiomatic Methods in Science P. Suppes. 13. Complementarity in the Theory of Conversations and Lp G. Pask. 14. A Theory of Bargains in Experience S.M. Lindenberg. Part III: Beyond Complementarity, Beyond Physics. 15. Complementarity or Process? T. Bastin. 16. Can Quantum Computation Provide a Physically Realistic Model of the Self and Its Brain? P.J.Marcer. 17. Non-Locality in Nature and Cognition F.D. Peat. 18. Spontaneity of Consciousness V.V. Nalimov. 19. A Brief Prolegomenon to the Principle of Metaphoricity M.E. Carvallo. Name Index. Subject Index.

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