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It Is Impossible, In Principle, To Explain Any Pattern By Invoking A Single Quantity.

Numbers Are The Product Of Counting. Quantities Are The Product Of Measurement. This Means That Numbers Can Conceivably Be Accurate Because There Is A Discontinuity Between Each Integer And The Next.

Science Probes; It Does Not Prove.

Schizophrenia --its Nature, Etiology, And The Kind Of Therapy To Use For It--remains One Of The Most Puzzling Of The Mental Illnesses. The Theory Of Schizophrenia Presented Here Is Based On Communications Analysis, And Specifically On The Theory Of Logical Types. From This Theory And From Observations Of Schizophrenic Patients Is Derived A Description, And The Necessary Conditions For, A Situation Called The "double Bind"--a Situation In Which No Matter What A Person Does, He "can't Win." It Is Hypothesized That A Person Caught In The Double Bind May Develop Schizophrenic Symptoms

Pathology Is A Relatively Easy Thing To Discuss, Health Is Very Difficult. This, Of Course, Is One Of The Reasons Why There Is Such A Thing As The Sacred, And Why The Sacred Is Difficult To Talk About, Because The Sacred Is Peculiarly Related To The Healthy. One Does Not Like To Disturb The Sacred, For In General, To Talk About Something Changes It, And Perhaps Will Turn It Into A Pathology.