Laws of Form

<p>This volume is a collection of articles on themes related to the book <em>Laws of Form</em> by George Spencer-Brown. <em>Laws of Form</em> was first published in 1969 and brings forth a new articulation of the foundations of thought. In <em>Laws of Form</em> we have a mathematical formalism based on one symbol and an approach to the question how the world would appear if a distinction could be drawn. <em>Laws of Form</em> does not answer the question how given nothing as a beginning a distinction can indeed must inevitably take place. This second question must in its own structure be left to each individual thinker. Nevertheless <em>Laws of Form</em> beautifully written and content free (form is emptiness emptiness is form) is the most powerful mathematical text on the edge of nothing that has been produced since Euclid's <em>Elements</em>. These papers are a tribute to Spencer-Brown and his singular achievement.</p>