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The references to Parker-Rhodes's linguistics, mathematics and physics works should be fleshed out in the main article. The article makes it clear that he was published in a remarkable range of subject areas, but it conveys no notion of what the work actually was about. In formal fields, outside biology, he was an "architectonic" philosopher-scientist (like Leibniz or Charles Peirce), not hesitating to build novel conceptual edifices as required. He often introduced new terminology and idiosyncratic notation, as an independent (but sound) scientific thinker, which makes his most technical works hard to read. I'm adding brief descriptions of two of the cited books.
I don't see a connection of Parker-Rhodes' proposed "combinatorial hierarchy", further developed by physicists, with his The Theory of Indistinguishable or The Inevitable Universe. (As a physics theory, it's been amusingly attacked as "mere numerology.")99.118.152.133 (talk) 13:32, 24 June 2017 (UTC)Reply
