Analytic Medicine : Volume One: Conventions (1st ed. 1979)

A HISTORY OF GENERAL MORPHOLOGY A convention is an agreement for usage or reference.

Monisms are conventions based upon some single principle.

Dualisms are conventions based upon some double principle.

Pluralisms are conventions based upon some multiple principle.

A long-term historical survey of previous formal conventions in thought and knowledge has revealed vast numbers of pluralisms from which a gradient of decreasing complexity leads to many persistent dualisms, thence to a fundamental dualism and finally to a fundamental monism.

PERSISTENT DUALISMS 1 Dualisms abound in all branches of thought and knowledge.

Many of these can be found in more than one area of knowledge and some are particularly persistent in all subjects.

Some of the most persistent have been extracted from the historical survey, in search of a common factor. 2 1--0_1 R_E_C_T_R_E_LA_T_IO_N---,~---lIINOIRECT RELATION I THE FUNDAMENTAL DUALISM2 An examination of the persistent dualisms reveals a fundamental RELATION (ASSOCIATION) 3 dualism, common to them all, namely: Direct relation - Indirect relation THE FUNDAMENTAL MONISM 3 The fundamental monism, common to both poles of the fundamental dualism is: Relation (alternatively called Association) ASSEMBLY OF A GRAPHIC CONVENTION A diagram of the suggested convention may be assembled upon a pair 5 of analytic rectangular axes called the informal axis and theformal 6 axis , which intersect at an origin representing the sensory 4 continuum * Direct association of elements does not create a common form and is 7 8 thus ' informal'.