A Preface on Aims -- 1 Rhetorical limitations in the use of frames andperspectives -- 2 Aging and complexity -- 3 The human animal and its ascendance fromignorance -- 4 The work of Herbert Simon on ArtificialIntelligence -- 5 Circular thinking and linear expositionCircling around a point to discover the point -- 6 Modern and postmodern thinking: rational andinterpretive thinking -- 7 Use of different types of graphic display tointerpret meaning -- 8 Stasis, observation, and facts -- 9 The apparent realism of naïve realismHow really naïve is naïve realism? -- 10 Various types of modeling used for finding correlations,designing structures, discovering contrasts,and making comparisons -- 11 A sense of place as fundamental to our thinkingabout models about equilibriums -- 12 Fenced-off and fenced-in equilibriums: Outsideand inside boundaries and fences -- 13 The rhetoric and politics of standardization:Measurements and needs for precision -- 14 Simple-minded simplicity of simples -- 15 Rhetorical Unity in Narrative and Exposition -- 16 Boolean algebra, Tűring machines, and theSheffer stroke function -- Appendix -- Bibliography -- List of Figures -- List of Tables -- Index.