
15 Stepping Stones in the Mist
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closure, inside, outside, negative, positive, foreground, background, inversion,
and crossing. Readers who are familiar with Spencer-Brown's
Laws of Form
may
now share my astonishment that there it has had so little direct influence on my
work despite the fact that so many similar guiding concepts are shared!
It's also necessary for me at this point to issue another disclaimer! In explor-
ing concepts or features like these I am not trying to understand them in the way
that a cognitive scientist might attempt to do. Nor am I trying to create models
or simulations that