ONT YWT 18 Dec 2001
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another ho-hum day, ontological news-wise, so i think
that i will use up my ticket to the midway to hawk the
wares that i've been pushing in my re-circus side-show
on the "critique of non-func". for those who've been
elsewhere distracted, i think that i have now set out
almost enough technical matter to begin a slow return
to the issues that fired up this bandwagon in the first
place, just for instance, this collection of incitements:
1. my thematical puzzlement, expressed in this wise:
| Thesis. Mathematics and its applications in physics
| and the other special sciences are serving moderately
| successfully to describe the world as we know it today,
| while logic lags behind in a largely ineffectual state.
|
| Inquiry. Why is this?
|
| 001. http://suo.ieee.org/email/msg07248.html
2. the reprise of quine on a theme out of leibniz:
| Where number is irrelevant, regimented mathematical technique
| has hitherto tended to be lacking. Thus it is that the progress
| of natural science has depended so largely upon the discernment of
| measurable quantity of one sort or another. Measurement consists
| in correlating our subject matter with the series of real numbers;
| and such correlations are desirable because, once they are set up,
| all the well-worked theory of numerical mathematics lies ready at
| hand as a tool for our further reasoning. But no science can rest
| entirely on measurement, and many scientific investigations are
| quite out of reach of that device. To the scientist longing for
| non-quantitative techniques, then, mathematical logic brings hope.
| It provides explicit techniques for manipulating the most basic
| ingredients of discourse. Its yield for science may be expected to
| consist also in a contribution of rigor and clarity -- a sharpening of
| the concepts of science. Such sharpening of concepts should serve both
| to disclose hitherto hidden consequences of given scientific hypotheses,
| and to obviate subtle errors which may stand in the way of scientific
| progress.
|
| Quine, 'Mathematical Logic', pages 7-8.
|
| Willard Van Orman Quine,
|'Mathematical Logic', Revised Edition,
| Harvard University Press, Cambridge, MA,
| 1940, 1951, 1981.
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| 002. http://suo.ieee.org/email/msg07256.html
for your musement, i append a brochure of
my caravan's e-gress on this quest so far.
it was a day like any other day,
only you were there 18 Dec 2001.
jon awbrey
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Critique Of Non-Functional Reason
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