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It is common nowadays to search for ‘fundamentals,’ We assume there are such things and that they can be found, although this assumption may not be in any way justified.
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Glanville, R. (1978). The Nature of Fundamentals, Applied to the Fundamentals of Nature. In: Klir, G.J. (eds) Applied General Systems Research. NATO Conference Series, vol 5. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4757-0555-3_30
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