"an American philosopher, author and professor. He made contributions to the subjects of naturalism and metaphysics, introducing the concept of the natural complex."

"Buchler's keystone work, Metaphysics of Natural Complexes, builds upon two major principles: ontological parity,^[3] which asserts the equal reality of whatever is, and ordinal metaphysics, which asserts the indefinite complexity of whatever is.^[4]

Contrasted most clearly with pre-Socratic philosophers, Buchler believed there was no most simple, fundamental substance or element that comprised the universe. Rather, everything is a complex—specifically a natural complex."

"Buchler's novel approach to metaphysics seems to herald what Lee Smolin calls 'the lightness of the new search for knowledge'. This search, he says, is based on an underlying philosophy that 'the universe is a network of relations'." (Wikipedia)

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name	Justus Buchler
dOB	1914
dOD	1991
book	Unnamed