This section contains the following subsections (use the links in the Table of Contents to navigate)

• 3.1. Beyond method
• 3.2. Constraints on a meta-answer
• 3.3. Meta-answer patterning
• 3.4. Containing discontinuity through aesthetics
• 3.5. Observer entrapment and micro-macro complementarity
• 3.6. Order through fluctuation: dissipative structures
• 3.7. Opening and closing: alternation for discontinuous learning
• 3.8. Third-perspective "containers": patterns of alternation
• 3.9. Revolutionary cycles of alternation
• 3.10. Trialectics: a logic of the whole