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%lotte argues that, when applied to the anagran,
the potentials of such a clinamen reify the very constraint
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that they evade:
"one can trace the path of the clinamen
through the text, line by line, and its consequences are
considerable:
the language of the new f orm, when compared
to the old, describes a radical swerve toward the normative"
(Motte 1986:275).
The dysfunction of the system is itself
systematized as a function of the system so that that what
is paralogical in one science becomes paradigrnatic in
another:
such is the clinamen of the clinamen.
12Within mathematics, we might contrast the royal
Structura of Hilbert with the nomad Structure of Mandelbrot:
the former, seeking to portray quanta1 dimensions as the
predicate norm for plane geometry; the latter, seeking to
portray fractal dimensions as an alternate case to plane
geometry.
We might also contrast the royal Structura of
Russell with the nomad Structure of G8del:
the former,
seeking t o portray categorical paradox as aberrant to set
theory; the latter, seeking to elaborate categorical paradox
as inherent to set theory.