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Cyclicity
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Abstract
As we have seen in Chapter 1, one of the noteworthy differences between locative and standard properties is that successive places as well as successive moments, whose distance from a given point keeps increasing, could also, at each step, come closer to the same point from the opposite direction. We have also offered a reason why no other property possesses this feature of having values that are capable of generating series curving back upon themselves.
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