The explicable requires the inexplicable. Experience requires the nonexperienceable. The…

The explicable requires the inexplicable. Experience requires the nonexperienceable. The obvious requires the mystical. This is a powerful group of paired concepts generated by the complementarity of conceptuality.

Sourced, Synergetics: Explorations in the Geometry of Thinking (1975)

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