¶ Ship
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Ship:
“A ship of the sea is not a ship because it is built of wood, for ships can be built of steel or aluminum or polyester fiberglass or pig skin or bark. And ships are inherently a complex of associative principles, and subsets of which are each in turn independent of any local resource limitation. For example, ships’ fastenings may be of rivets, nails, screws, or bolts; of bronze, steel, or monel-- or welds. It is true, of course, that ships of special component chemistry may outperform others of less appropriate chemistry, but this is by obvious subsynergetic evolutionary improvement, and not by surprise.”
¶ Citations
- RBF draft Ltr. to Jim (Fitzgibbon?), Raleigh, NC, 1954-59
