Book 14. (1 results) Fighting Slave of Gor (Individual Quote)
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| 11 | 404 | The man of View more quotes about earth">Earth might conceive of the territory as bounded by the circumference; the man of Gor would be more likely to think of the territory as a function of the sweep of the radius which emanates from the central point. |
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Book 14. (7 results) Fighting Slave of Gor (Context Quote)
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| 11 | 401 | There can be, of course, leagues among cities and tangential territories. |
| 11 | 402 | Men of Earth tend to think of territory in a manner that might be considered circumferential, whereas Goreans tend to think of it as a more radial sort of thing. |
| 11 | 403 | Consider a circle with a point at its center. |
| 11 | 404 | The man of Earth might conceive of the territory as bounded by the circumference; the man of Gor would be more likely to think of the territory as a function of the sweep of the radius which emanates from the central point. |
| 11 | 405 | Geometrically, of course, these two conceptions are equivalent. |
| 11 | 406 | Psychologically, however, they are not. |
| 11 | 407 | The man of Earth looks to the periphery; the man of Gor looks to the center. |
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There can be, of course, leagues among cities and tangential territories.
Men of Earth tend to think of territory in a manner that might be considered circumferential, whereas Goreans tend to think of it as a more radial sort of thing.
Consider a circle with a point at its center.
The man of Earth might conceive of the territory as bounded by the circumference; the man of Gor would be more likely to think of the territory as a function of the sweep of the radius which emanates from the central point.
Geometrically, of course, these two conceptions are equivalent.
Psychologically, however, they are not.
The man of Earth looks to the periphery; the man of Gor looks to the center.
- (Fighting Slave of Gor)