Re: SUO: Ever Ending Stories
Jon,
Yes, I believe that should be the guiding principle of the SUO:
>What you are saying here clicks in with the major shift that took
>place in my own thinking...
> that this whole
>turn was analogous to the paradigm shift that Aristotle motivated
>when he rephrased the "Big Question", just by way of getting some
>handle on it, to ask, not so much what things are, which we could
>not get directly at, as it was already becoming rather tiresomely
>clear even way back then, but what are all of us saying about the
>way things are, and what would it take to have any hope of making
>any of this jibe?
I agree. As I said on p. 1 of my KR book, "Aristotle shifted
the emphasis of philosophy from the nature of knowledge to the
less controversial, but more practical problem of representing
knowledge."
I believe that we will make a lot more progress towards a
useful SUO if we focus on how to represent what scientists
and ordinary human beings want to say.
John Sowa