ONT Re: Apposite Purposes Of Logical Languages Objectified (APOLLO)
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HP = Howard Pattee
JA = Jon Awbrey
JA: The object of an objective sign
is to signify its object as
objectively as possible.
JA: What does that mean?
JA: It is only what we are always already trying to do in formal,
logical, or mathematical inquiries, where we are trying to
arrive at conceptions of objects that are as independent
of particular languages, media, and representations
as we possibly can.
HP: This is how a logician looks at language. There is another more empirical way.
All languages have evolved. Here is a 111-word chronology of a billion years
of evolution of Jon's "formal, logical, or mathematical inquiries".
HP: The first signs were pre-linguistic (stimuli, detections, sensations, perceptions, etc.).
Early brains evolved object detectors and motion detectors. Insects developed languages
allowing "displacement" in space and time of direct perceptions of objects and motions
of objects allowing communication. Grammars evolved that distinguished objects (nouns)
and actions (verbs). Mathematics abstracted the perceptual properties of nouns and
verbs and called them set elements and operations. In this view, our conceptions
of objects begins with the brain's evolution in a physical world full of moving
objects. We arrive at objective symbolic expressions to communicate these
conceptions of objects by finding "invariant" expressions that are
independent of the particular expressions (or perceptions) of
individual observers.
HP: I could have said this in 11,111 words, but you get the drift.
I will admit,
Our soul wit,
'Tis brevity
In such fine,
That for Lit
Let Fiat Lux!
Be nuff o'it.
Jon Awbrey
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