“Profound metaphysics are rooted in an implicit geometry.”
About This Quote
Full quote from original source (though translated): "Thus profound metaphysics is rooted in an implicit geometry which— whether we will or no— confers spatiality upon thought; if a metaphysician could not draw, what would he think? Open and closed, for him, are thoughts. They are metaphors that he attaches to everything, even to his systems."
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