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A sign is a fact or an event that conveys meaning: it rests upon the factual, so generally praised in our scientific era, but it opens the mind to the sphere of meaning, presently too often forgotten. Knowledge obtained by observing signs is of prime importance for the grounding of Christian faith. Remarkably, some recent scientific advances take a paradoxical form: they produce the sign that the reality they investigate transcends the finitude of our mind. We shall concentrate our attention on one example of such transcendence, one that we may call a generalized principle of complementarity drawn from a major scientific advance.
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Morren, L. (1990). A generalized principle of complementarity — seen as a sign. In: Fennema, J., Paul, I. (eds) Science and Religion. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-009-2021-7_37
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