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most important is the Syadvada or the complementarity principle, the precise definitions and number of modes are not so important.
Appendix
Examples of Syadvada
approach to fundamental problems
1. Determinism and Free will
Two contradictory facts:
(a) One knows by direct incontrovertible experience that it is one's own self that directs the motion of one's body; and because of this freedom arises moral responsibility for
one's actions.
(b) The body functions as a pure mechanism according to the Laws of Nature. (See E. Schroedinger, What is Life? Cambridge University Press, 1948)
2. Euclidean and Non-Euclidean geometry.
Cantorian and NonCantorian sets. (P. J. Cohen and R. Hersh, Scient. Am., Dec. 1967).
3. Einstein' theory of relativity and gravitation.
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(See especially, Einstein's Creative Thinking and the General Theory of Relativity, A Rothenberg, Am J. Psychiatry January 1979).
4. (a) 'We can draw a straight line joining two points'. (b) 'We cannot draw a straight line joining two points'. This reminds of Zeno's Paradox.
(See A New Perspective on Infinity, New Scientist, 8 June, 1978)
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