Disciplines strive for autonomy, and that means that they
formulate definite boundaries over against other disciplines and develop their own methodologies to deal with what lies within these boundaries.
Bergsonian intuition alone can not discern these identities as Forms as they are presented in tension, nor can intuition alone discriminate the discontinuities of radical change, since these erupt
within definite boundaries....
One approach, pioneered by Professor Max Atkinson in Our Master's Voices, suggests there are certain rhetorical formats which act as a kind of wrapper that gives a
phrase definite boundaries.
RB: Yes, but Monet's pictures weren't abstract; they were pictures of, for example, St. Mark's at Venice, without
any definite boundaries.
The Sun does not have
a definite boundary as rocky planets do; the density of its gases drops approximately exponentially with increasing distance from the center of the Sun.
The text seems quite explicit and matches the question I originally asked Muller, albeit I placed
a definite boundary that the cooling must end at the present.