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rows is the principle of complementarity which may be stated as “A and

B are complementary aspects of C”. The term “complementary” has triple

meanings:

1. A and B are mutually exclusive (exclusivity),


2. A and B are both essential in accounting for C (essentiality), and


3. C transcends the level at which A and B have meanings
   (transcendentality).

10.1.1 Complementarity Between Complementarism and

Merleau-Ponty’s Flesh Ontology

My son, Douglas Sayer Eung Ji [280]; see Appendix I, in his senior

research paper submitted to Professor B. Wilshire of the Department of

Philosophy at Rutgers in 1996 explored “the remarkable complementarity,

i.e. identity-within-difference, that exists between the phenomenological

ontology of Maurice Merleau-Ponty and the biology-based philosophical

framework known as complementarism, developed by Sungchul Ji”. With

permission, I am quoting the abstract of the paper below with the com-

plete paper attached as Appendix I.

[B]oth thinkers, despite their radically differing methodologies — Ji, a

chemist and theoretical biologist, utilizing the specialized technologies

and conceptual strategies of operational science, and Merleau-Ponty, a

phenomenologist, concerning himself with the unadulterated life of the

Table 10.1 Complementarity: An invariant symmetry principle in physics, biology, and

philosophy.

A B C

Physics Wave Particle Light (or Quons)

Biology Information (Gnons) Energy/matter (Ergons) Gnergy (Gnergons)

Philosophya Yin

Form

Thought

Mind

Yang

Matter

Extension

Body

Dao (Lao-tse)

Hylomorph (Aristotle)

Substance (Spinoza)

Flesh (Merleau-Ponty)

aFor references, see Table 10.2.

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