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This is the problem I have with any study of "systems". It all just feels like overly ornate verbiage for "hey, this thing kinda looks like this other thing if you squint". It's very difficult to distinguish that imgur image from complete Time-Cube-level quackery. "Volume (more than 3 points) <==> deep cause-and-effect relationships <==> trivalent linguistics (he gives the book to his brother)" ... really? Is this really helping humanity understand anything?

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In some ways it’s my fault that I didn’t present it very well, but perhaps this should be taken less strictly, as something of a source of inspiration, like some kind of painting. Someone can then take it more strictly and make some kind of Curry-Howard isomorphism, or from the idea that the information concept of a file corresponds to the material concept of force, something in dimensional analysis can grow.

That is, it may be less formal at the beginning, but then a craftsman may be found who will do everything quite strictly.

Nevertheless, now this author is developing the theory of syllogistics and there are quite practical results, for example, that the logic textbooks for lawyers can be translated into boolean algebra and made more precise.

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