ONT Re: Hypostatic And Prescisive Abstraction -- Discussion Notes
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HAPA. Discussion Note 5
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BM = Bernard Morand
| CSP on HA: "It consists in taking a feature of a percept
| or percepts (after it has already been prescinded from the
| other elements of the percept), so as to take propositional
| form in a judgment (indeed, it may operate upon any judgment
| whatsoever), and in conceiving this fact to consist in the
| relation between the subject of that judgment and another
| subject, which has a mode of being that merely consists
| in the truth of propositions of which the corresponding
| concrete term is the predicate."
BM: Could you give the source of this passage?
Hi Bernard,
This came up in the context of several different threads on the SUO and
Ontology Lists that involved different people's ideas about abstraction:
Cathy Legg mentioned HA a la Cyc and/or Davidson that piqued my interest,
but I am still waiting for clarification of its relation to Peirce's HA;
Matthew West has a distinction between the categories of <abstract_object>
and <possible_individual> in his Lifecycle Integration Schema, a datamodel
and/or ontology that is currently being considered by the SUO working group;
John Sowa dreams of a distinction between the ideas of Abstract and Physical
in his Philosophy, Horatio.
Here is the stem cell of the LIS filiation:
LIS. Lifecycle Integration Schema -- Matthew West
01. http://suo.ieee.org/email/msg10712.html
Here are the links to the source materials
and discussion notes that have accumulated
up to this point on HA and PA:
HAPA. Hypostatic And Prescisive Abstraction
01. http://suo.ieee.org/ontology/msg05089.html -- Cain and Abel
02. http://suo.ieee.org/ontology/msg05090.html -- Dormative Virtue
03. http://suo.ieee.org/ontology/msg05091.html -- Honey is Sweet
04. http://suo.ieee.org/ontology/msg05093.html -- Math Abstraction
05. http://suo.ieee.org/ontology/msg05100.html -- Reading Runes
06. http://suo.ieee.org/ontology/msg05101.html -- Hypostatization
07. http://suo.ieee.org/ontology/msg05105.html -- Abstract Objects
08. http://suo.ieee.org/ontology/msg05108.html -- Subjectal Abstraction
D1. http://suo.ieee.org/ontology/msg05092.html -- Metaphormazes
D2. http://suo.ieee.org/ontology/msg05110.html -- Deciduation Problems
D3. http://suo.ieee.org/ontology/msg05111.html -- Recapitulation
D4. http://suo.ieee.org/ontology/msg05112.html -- Key To Abstraction
D5. http://suo.ieee.org/ontology/msg05113.html -- Self Reference?
The passage that you mention is quoted initially at No. 3, and
it is discussed further at D1, D3, D4, and prospectively at D5.
Have to break for breakfast as I am still semi-asleep ...
Jon Awbrey
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