Truth is cosmically total: synergetic. Verities are generalized principles stated…

Truth is cosmically total: synergetic. Verities are generalized principles stated in semimetaphorical terms. Verities are differentiable. But love is omniembracing, omnicoherent, and omni-inclusive, with no exceptions. Love, like synergetics, is nondifferentiable, i.e., is integral.

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

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