... II. The Framework ...

values paradoxes

"Behold, the nations are as a drop of a bucket, and are counted as the small dust of the balance: behold, he taketh up the isles as a very little thing." Isaiah 40:15

Space and Location

Both science and religion are tied to places, and often to the same place or places. Yet it seems a paradox to discuss both of these relationships in context to place. So it is logical that PLACE be one of the primary frameworks for understanding and for bridging the gaps between science and religion. A good place to start an understanding the role of PLACE is to index PLACE(S), watching to see if resulting patterns turn space and location data into information, knowledge, or wisdom (see Infinite GridSM).

Webster’s New American Dictionary defines space as:
  1. a period of time;
  2. some small measurable distance, area, or volume;
  3. the limitless area in which all things exist and move;
  4. an empty place;
  5. the region beyond the earth’s atmosphere; and
  6. a definite place (as a seat on a train or ship).2.69
 The same dictionary defines location as:
  1. situation, place;
  2. the process of locating; or
  3. a place outside a studio where a motion picture is filmed.2.70
 Note the word place is used in both definitions, in a sense illustrating how location and space are subsets of each other. To explore these relationships, this section considers cultures which considered space and location to be one-dimensional, cultures working with two dimensional concepts, cultures realizing three-dimensional physical space, cultures using N-dimensional conceptual space and mathematical space, and how each of these views of space and location can be integrated and understood better with models.






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