Systematics - A Discipline for Qualitative Complexity
Qualitative complexity can be understood by viewing the field of interest through a series of conceptual lenses based on the qualitative significance of number. Number is much more deeply ingrained in our everyday understanding and the implicit categories in everyday speech, such as:
· “We need to get the whole (big) picture” – (oneness)
· “This situation is locked in a dilemma” – (twoness)
· “This relationship has broken down” – (threeness)
· “Some order needs introducing here” – (fourness)
· “What potentialities are we looking at here?” – (fiveness)