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For a long time philosophy has been associated
with systems, with world views, weltanschauungs,
and general pictures of things. Since the
Renaissance most methods and procedures have
strongly tended toward stress on the visual
organization and application of knowledge. Printing gave enormous stress to such visual process, to differential calculus, and to statistics.
But since the early 19th century, with the arrival of
electrical problems and processes, mathematics
and physics have moved away from visual
organization and statistics toward dynamics, time
organization and what psychologists refer to as