SUO: Re: Cursive Stories
John F. Sowa wrote:
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> 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
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John,
Good, I like preaching to the Kapellmeister.
Now, before I get charged with leading
yet another charge "Bach to Aristotle",
and there is nothing wrong with seeing
that continuity so long as it does not
gloss over the real (or logical) diffs,
let me try to state what I thought was
irrecursedly distinct this time around,
back in the heyday of that Info Revolt.
It was the (re)discovery of, what else?, information,
that is, the hard reality or the object significance
of that dimension or that tension that is strung out
between, taking the one born first, uncertainty, and
the one being privileged and prized as the good twin,
information. Yet another "wood be" redundancy, that,
and yet I still do not see the logic that is so well
integrated with a fitting theory of information that
every axiom, definition, rule, statement, or theorem,
or the physical symbol thereof, is equipped with the
functional measure of its information content to the
interpreter thereof, and yes, I see the attempt, but
no, I do not see that there are convincing successes.
Until Then,
Jon Awbrey
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