Differentiations become…
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1 min readMay 3, 2017
“Differentiations become generalities from which other differentiations emerge.
In other words, development is an open-ended process, which creates complexity and diversity, because multiplied generalities are sources of multiplied differentiations — some occurring simultaneously in parallel, others in successions. Thus a simple basic process, when repeated and repeated and repeated, produces staggering diversity.”
— Jane Jacobs, The Nature of Economies, p. 17
