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::" We may predict that ... as methods relevant to organized complexity develop in laboratory science, the social sciences will benefit in proportion.
The new concepts — fusing with, changing, and adding to present understanding — may allow the definition and measurement of quantities more central to the health of the body politick than a ' standard of living ' that includes useless packaging discarded, or a ' gross national product ' that includes machines whose productivity is measured in megadeaths.
If any mathematical methods can aid in the growth of such wisdom, then catastrophe theory will be part of them.
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