Note to Readers
1Quotations from Fuller’s Synergetics: Explorations in the Geometry of Thinking, (which is organized into numbered sections and subsections in such a way that each paragraph is given its own reference number) are followed by the numerical section reference in parentheses.
2 Passages from Synergetics 2: Further Explorations in the Geometry of Thinking will be referenced likewise, with the addition of the letter "b" after the section number.
3 An " Index of Synergetics" appears on p.312, immediately preceding the general Index in the back of the book.
45Quotations are reprinted with permission of Macmillan Publishing Company, New York, from Synergetics: Explorations in the Geometry of Thinking by R. Buckminster Fuller, in collaboration with E.J. Applewhite. Copyright ľ1975 by R. Buckminster Fuller and from Synergetics 2: Further Explorations in the Geometry of Thinking by R. Buckminster Fuller, in collaboration with E.J. Applewhite. Copyright ľ1979 by R. Buckminster Fuller.
6 Glossarized terms (see Glossary, p.302) are indicated throughout the book by a dotted underline at their early or key occurrences.