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as extreme manifestations of their source C (i.e., mattergy) that can be

quantitatively combined or added to completely characterize C. In con­

trast, complementarity is non­additive, i.e., A and B cannot be combined

to obtain C. Rather, C can be said to become or exhibit A or B, depending

on measuring instruments employed, i.e., C = A or C = B, depending on

measurement. We can represent this complementary relation symbolically

as shown in Eq. (2.13):

Complementarity: C = A^B, (2.13)

where the symbol ^ denotes a “complementary relation”. The principles

of complementarity and supplementarity defined above may operate not

only in physics, but also in biology and beyond as first suggested by Bohr

[45–47]. The Yin and Yang doctrine of the Daoist philosophy [48, 49] may

be considered to encompass both complementarity and supplementarity

(see Section 10.21).

2.4.1 The Principle of Generalized Complementarity (PGC)

According to complementarism, a biology­based philosophical framework

formulated Sungchul Ji in the early 1990’s [24, 50] (see Section 10.1), the

ultimate reality, C, is the complementary union of an irreconcilably oppo­

site and dichotomous pair, A and B, or the Yin and Yang of the Daoist

philosophy [48, 49], which can conveniently be represented as follows:

C

A B

Figure 2.4 A diagrammatic representation of the PGC: The ultimate reality, C, is a

complementary union of irreconcilably opposite A and B. For example, C = light, if A =

particle, and B = wave; C = Tao, also called Dao, if A = Yin (shadow), and B = Yang (light).

2.4.2 The Complementarian Logic

The complementarian logic, consisting of just three elements to be des­

cribed below, was formulated in the mid­1990s by generalizing Bohr’s

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