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1. Limitations of interdisciplinarity
Maruyama uses his approach (Note 12.3) to clarify the essential weaknesses of the interdisciplinary, holistic programmes associated with generalists and their education:
1. Epistemological types
1. Beyond formal logic
1. Threshold of comprehensibility: a fourfold minimal system
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1. Non-equilibrium structures
1. Meta-answer patterning
In moving beyond pluralistic relativism, what is required is some appropriate pattern whereby answer domains can be interrelated. The number-pattern of sets outlined in the previous note is one approach to this.
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1. Constraints
To avoid creating the impression that the previous argument amounts to pluralist relativism, it is necessary to clarify some constraints which counteract such a condition before taking the argument a step further. Ranges of possible constraints have been explored elsewhere (Encyclopedia, Section KP, 1991). At this point it is appropriate to list the following:
The difficulty in taking the argument beyond that of the previous notes lies in the manner in which conventional notions of method are undermined beyond this point. Basically acceptable methods are associated with particular domains or groups of domains. Attempts to apply a given method to "all" domains are only possible if the method is used to pre-define many domains as "irrelevant". Methods as answers, or as aspects of an answer, are thus subject to limitations.
