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mechanical demarcation: *

character/notation of word and number, are symbols which can be imagined, comprehended and communicated, and as such can be used to capture the unimaginable, incomprehensible and uncommunicable, this being the indefinable sense impressions of nature that primitive man first encounters.  He names them, makes them deities & thus gains power over them, limits them, captures them.  He uses words, he posits formula, conclusions, proofs; he uses numbers (unities, pluralities, related & differentiated) to define and think of Nature.

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archaic style: *

best reflected in types of Archaic sculpture known as the kouros and kore; near life-size frontal statues of a young man or woman, were developed around the mid 7th century BC in the Cyclades. Probably the earliest kore produced was the Dedication of Nikandre, dedicated to Artemis at her temple on Delos between 660 and 650 BC. Kouroi and korai were used to represent both humans and divinities.

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geometrical: *

a phase of Greek art, characterized by geometric motifs in vase painting, flourished towards the end of the Greek Dark Ages, circa 900 BC – 700 BC. Its center was in Athens, and from there the style spread among the trading cities of the Aegean.

Decline of the West, Chapter II: The Meaning of Numbers
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