"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."
Quote Details
Added by wikiquote-import-bot
Unverified quote
0 likes
Original Language: English
Available Languages (1)
Sources
p. 1, cited in Niklas Luhmann, Risk: A Sociological Theory, Walter de Gruyter, 1993 p. 223.
https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/G._Spencer-Brown
Revision History
No revisions have been submitted for this quote.
Categories
G. Spencer-Brown
George Spencer-Brown (2 April 1923 – 25 August 2016) was a polymath best known as the author of Laws of Form.
4 quotes on TrueQuotesView all quotes by G. Spencer-Brown →
Related Quotes
"Let us consider, for a moment, the world as described by the physicist. It consists of a number of fundamental partic…"
"To teach pride in knowledge is to put up an effective barrier against any advance upon what is already known, since i…"
"George Spencer-Brown—born in Grimsby, Lincolnshire, England 1923—has held a number of occupational roles, such as a m…"
"The more I thought about it, the more obsessed I became with the idea of a swimming journey. I started to dream ever …"
"From water level, I observed the mating joined in flight like refuelling aircraft, and the random progress of the clo…"
"It is through trees that we see and hear the wind: woodland people can tell the species of a tree from the sound it m…"
"Waterlog (1999), Roger's now-classic account of swimming through Britain, published twenty years ago this year, opens…"
"In 1973, Roger Deakin, a British writer and environmental activist, acquired a tumbledown sixteenth-century farmhouse…"
"Der lange Marsch durch die Institutionen."
"The poet of England, he gave to the love of country, to patriotism as nowadays we call it, a voice which never shall …"