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<span style="background-color: black;">''Synchronicity'', C.G.Jung, 3rd ¶ from end of Ch. 3:<blockquote style="background-color: black;">"The idea of synchronicity and of a self-subsistent meaning, which forms the basis of classical Chinese thinking and of the naïve views of the Middle Ages, seems to us an archaic assumption that ought at all costs to be avoided. Though the West has done everything possible to discard this antiquated hypothesis, it has not quite succeeded. ... It was modern psychology and parapsychology which proved that causality does not explain a certain class of events and that in this case we have to consider a formal factor, namely synchronicity, as a principle of explanation."</blockquote></span></ref> Elsewhere, Jung has made clear that he has introduced the principle partially in response to issues that are raised with respect to causality in physics which he had been able to discuss with figures of his time such as Einstein and Pauli which is brought to a complete exposition in the concluding 4th chapter. | <span style="background-color: black;">''Synchronicity'', C.G.Jung, 3rd ¶ from end of Ch. 3:<blockquote style="background-color: black;">"The idea of synchronicity and of a self-subsistent meaning, which forms the basis of classical Chinese thinking and of the naïve views of the Middle Ages, seems to us an archaic assumption that ought at all costs to be avoided. Though the West has done everything possible to discard this antiquated hypothesis, it has not quite succeeded. ... It was modern psychology and parapsychology which proved that causality does not explain a certain class of events and that in this case we have to consider a formal factor, namely synchronicity, as a principle of explanation."</blockquote></span></ref> Elsewhere, Jung has made clear that he has introduced the principle partially in response to issues that are raised with respect to causality in physics which he had been able to discuss with figures of his time such as Einstein and Pauli which is brought to a complete exposition in the concluding 4th chapter. | ||
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