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parts may frequently provide the capability to discover unknown parts or all the unknown parts.
"I pointed out that Euler’s topology provided mathematical means for dealing with the whole of visual experience reducing it into points, areas, and lines and we found there was a consistent generalization of the relative abundance of those three irreducible aspects of experience.
"I then pointed out that Willard Gibbs, at the beginning of the 20th century had been able to provide a formula for relative abundance of the tactile experiences of liquids, crystallines, and gases; and with the known behavior of the whole and the known behavior of some of the parts quantitatively predicted, the behavior of the unknown parts and energy inputs we could arrive at the factors necessary to establish the equilibrium of a substance.
“Having found, then, that humanity had three successful grand strategies for proceeding from the whole to the particular, I produced my scientific definition of Universe; and I produced the concept of a system; and was able to find an equation for”
