THE ELEMENTS OF STATICS AND DYNAMICS: STATICS

By KAREN THOMPSON

CONTENTS PART ONE: INTRODUCTION CHAPTER ONE INTRODUCTION—THE USE OF GEOLOGY TWO VIEWS IN CONTENTION GEOLOGY AND GEOSCIENCES STATICS AND DYNAMICS IN GEOLOGY THE WIDE VARIETY OF GEOLOGICAL METHODS THE THEORETICAL DEBATE THE RESETTLEMENT THEORY OF GEOLOGY THEORY AND META-THEORY THE LOGIC OF EXISTENTIAL DIALECTICS SOPHISTICATED METHODOLOGICAL HOLISM CHAPTER OUTLINE SOME CLARIFICATIONS PART TWO: STATICS CHAPTER TWO STATICS AND ITS CONTINGENCY THE DURABILITY OF STATICS STATICS AND THE MIND STATICS AND NATURE STATICS AND SOCIETY STATICS AND CULTURE THE CHANGEABILITY OF STATICS PART THREE: DYNAMICS CHAPTER THREE DYNAMICS AND ITS RESTRICTION THE STRENGTH OF DYNAMICS DYNAMICS AND THE MIND DYNAMICS AND NATURE DYNAMICS AND SOCIETY DYNAMICS AND CULTURE THE WEAKNESS OF DYNAMICS PART FOUR: CONCLUSION CHAPTER FOUR CONCLUSION—THE FUTURE OF GEOLOGY BEYOND UNIFORMITY, CATASTROPHE, AND REVISION 1ST THESIS: THE ABSOLUTENESS-RELATIVENESS PRINCIPLE 2ND THESIS: THE PREDICTABILITY-UNPREDICTABILITY PRINCIPLE 3RD THESIS: THE EXPLICABILITY-INEXPLICABILITY PRINCIPLE 4TH THESIS: THE PRECISENESS-VAGUENESS PRINCIPLE 5TH THESIS: THE SIMPLENESS-COMPLICATEDNESS PRINCIPLE 6TH THESIS: THE OPENNESS-HIDDENNESS PRINCIPLE 7TH THESIS: THE DENSENESS-EMPTINESS PRINCIPLE 8TH THESIS: THE SLOWNESS-QUICKNESS PRINCIPLE 9TH THESIS: THE EXPANSION-CONTRACTION PRINCIPLE 10TH THESIS: THE THEORY-PRAXIS PRINCIPLE 11TH THESIS: THE CONVENTION-NOVELTY PRINCIPLE 12TH THESIS: THE EVOLUTION-TRANSFORMATION PRINCIPLE 13TH THESIS: THE SYMMETRY-ASYMMETRY PRINCIPLE 14TH THESIS: THE REGRESSION-PROGRESSION PRINCIPLE 15TH THESIS: THE SAMENESS-DIFFERENCE PRINCIPLE 16TH THESIS: THE POST-HUMAN RESETTLEMENT BEYOND EARTH GEOLOGY