SUO: Re: SUO Comment #2
#%%THIS%%%#%%%IS%%%%#%%%NOT%%%#%%%%A%%%%#%%FRAME%%#
| Considerate la vostra semenza:
| fatti non foste a viver come bruti,
| ma per seguir virtute e canoscenza.
Roughly:
| Consider the seed from which you sprang:
| You were not made to live like brutes,
| But to go after virtue and knowledge.
[ Motto of Oakland University,
| From Dante's Inferno, Canto 26.118-120
]
Chris Partridge wrote:
<...>
> This process has honourable antecedents. If you look at the history of
> science (one of the few well studied areas of the evolution of knowledge)
> then you see a similar pattern. 'Revolutions' in science tend to take a
> variety of lower level theories and consolidate/unify them into a single
> more general theory. They also tend to end up with new (relatively
> unfamiliar) terms.
<...>
Perhaps it would not be such a bad idea to consider our ante-seedents?
By the way, there are also some well-studied, if not yet well-understood,
relations between abductive reasoning and paradigm shifts, to the extent
that they have analogous forms of knowledge-dynamics that drive them,
if at vastly different levels of distribution and generality.
Something to think about, I think, in terms of making any
knowledge-based system, Science or SUO, more robust.
Ciao!
Jon
#%%%%%%%%%#%%%%%%%%%#%%%%%%%%%#%%%%%%Jon#Awbrey%%%#