Abstract
a book on reality, which was very slowly taking shape. The working title is Conquest of Abundance. The book is intended to show how specialists and common people reduce the abundance that surrounds and confuses them, and the consequences of their actions. It is mainly a study of the role of abstractions – mathematical and physical notions especially – and of the stability and ‘objectivity’ they seem to carry with them. It deals with the ways in which such abstractions rise, are supported by common ways of speaking and living, and change as a result of argumentation and/or practical pressure. In the book I also try to emphasise the essential ambiguity of all concepts, images, and notions that presuppose change. Without ambiguity, no change, ever. The quantum theory, as interpreted by Niels Bohr, is a perfect example of that. Conquest of Abundance should be a simple book, pleasant to read and easy to understand. . . . What is more important – to be understood by outsiders or to be regarded as a ‘deep thinker’?
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