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ONT Re: Extension x Comprehension = Information




Jon Awbrey a écrit :

    | this statement is mine too, you way of quoting is confusing
    V
> It is not so much "misunderstandings" than not having the same goals,
> I already said that:
> 
> JD: May be I shall not keep contradicting you on Peirce because
>     neither of us will get much profit out of it, given that we
>      don't have the same goals.
> 
> That statement itself betrays of host of misunderstandings,
> most of which I must pass by in hopes of finding something
> that can be addressed in a satisfactory way at this time.
> Your assumption that you know of my goals at this point
> is one for which I can find no evidence in what you say.
> 
> There are goals and there are subgoals, long-term and short-term.
> This is what I said to you in reply to this question about goals:
> 
> My present goal is arriving at good theories of intelligent systems
> and building software that will help us do inquiry in the real world.
> I started out in math, physics, took a detour through philosophy and
> psych, came back to math and statistics, took another detour through
> cog and quant psych, back to math, then took up computing because of
> needing to build a theorem prover to help with some of the questions
> in math that i really just had to know the answer to, and continued
> that project into my current systems engineering work.  The point is,
> I did not start as a classical or 19th century scholar, but only got
> forced to return to these old sources by a kind of backtrack algorithm
> that I was pursuing, when I had to diagnose why current hypotheses and
> methods appeared to be failing to do what they were supposed to do.

Sorry Jon, but I can assure you that either:

- My goals are not your goals whatever those may be.
- You are nuts.
- I am nuts.

This not being an exclusive OR...

I don't see any reason to keep arguing.

Bye.

-- Jean-Luc Delatre
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