Correspondence.

In this issue, Dieter Gernert analyses the characteristic deficiencies, incomplete, implicit, incoherent, and inconsistent knowledge in some detail. The material presented is relevant to everyday human reasoning, but particularly to reasoning under aggravating conditions, e.g., in issues, which are controversial from the beginning, or where a closed theory or a generally accepted decision procedure does not (yet) exist.

In "Evolution of Culture in the Light of the Second Law of Thermodynamics," Halvor Naess contends that that the second law of thermodynamics is of special importance even within the domain of the humanist, especially in the evolution of culture. …