Ambiguity in art and science

World Futures 40 (1):63-74 (1994)
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All processes of measurement imply symmetry?breaking. Ambiguity is the coexistence of mutually incompatible aspects of the same structure. There are many examples of analogy and symmetry breaking in nature and in culture

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10.1080/02604027.1994.9972418

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Visual thinking.Rudolf Arnheim - 1969 - London,: Faber.

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