... of form – especially the distinctions of distinction/indication, system/environment, medium/form and information/utterance/understanding – to address the epistemological problems of traditional social science. Second, it explains how the paradox of circularity inherent in distinction-based forms becomes...

... of these constructions. Mathematics studies what a distinction would be if there could be a distinction. Mathematics is a special form of fictional design. This study raises the question of “What it would mean to go beyond mathematics or for mathematics to go beyond itself?”. Findings This study shows how objects...