Note 246

The very general concept of "structure" may be circumscribed further by corresponding adjectives (chemical, functional, psychical). We are, however, not sure whether we have thought about that everywhere. So there is the possibility of some inexactnesses. Fact remains :

The word "structure" may be appied in different ways, if one liberates it from the representation of an  architectonical, anatomical, chemical, or  geometrical  structure. The so reduced concept of structure then means nothing else than that an indicated phenomenal multitudiness is represented by an adequately distinguished conditional situation, existence, inhomogeneity, multitude, combination of potencies, basis, source, etc., without an absolutely fixed proposition, how and why it is so.

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