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- New Philosophy
Philosophy in the 21st
Century is reacting to two major forces
affecting its way of life. ...
- The Matrix Philosophy
There are key elements of Philosophy, Theology, Teleology and Ontology present
throughout The Matrix Series. ...
- Against Objectivism
All Rights
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© 1998-99 M.R.M. ParrottThe chapter linked below first appeared
as a series of internet discussion posts on
Usenet, in 1998-99, and is the
final chapter of "Sy
nthetic A Priori", linked here courtesy
of M.R.M. Parrott. (do
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Take
the Objectivist
Challenge!
# Download and
read the linked in
terview in its entirety. ...
- The Messiness of WikiDemocracy
This protected article by M.R.M. Parrott
first appeared on rimric folio, Spring
2004.
"Participating in a Wiki brings many
of the same feelings of freedom as having
one's own website or participating in a
discussion forum, but there are serious
pitfalls to consider, especially for a
larger, public Wiki."
In the early
years of the century, a new form of making a
website through
collaboration has come into its own. "Wiki wiki" (Hawaiian for
"quick", "WikiWiki" in CamelCase) used as
inspiration for what we could call "wiki
websites", are sites using one or several
display technologies allowing anyone to edit
their webpages. Currently, the most famous of
such websites is Pseudopedia, an
online encyclopedia-like information site
purporting to provide the canon of human
knowledge, but it has generated large
problems too, with verifiability, bias, and
social groupthink. Fortunately, there are
many other Wikis, however, such as MeatBall, CommunityWiki, C2, Metaweb, the Wikia multi-wiki "farm",
and many others like GetWiki,
an open policy humanities and technology site
and software. Wikis are springing up on
corporate intranets, too, where employees can
collaborate with each other in a way which
saves their correspondence for others to
read, and frees them from the spam and virus
difficulties of email.
What all of the
Wikis have in common is a cheerful embrace of
democratic values, where information and
communication are to no longer be bound by
the barriers typical of the past. In my own
writingsSeeweblink
for more., I have praised the edifying
power of hypertext, the breaking
down of old walls barring expression, and now
we can add WikiDemocracy to the mix of
new technological approaches allowing
departure from old hierarchies - at least in
ideal form. ...
- Introduction to Inquiry Driven Systems
The following essay is intended to provide
readers with background on the pragmatic
theory of inquiry and its relationship to the
pragmatic theory of signs.
Aspects of
Inquiry:
"Inquiry" is a word in common
use for a process that resolves doubt and
creates knowledge. ...
- Logic of Information (Jon Awbrey)
Peirce's concept of
information:
I've been meaning to get
back to Peirce's
theory of information, because I believe that
it contains a yet-to-be-tapped potential for
many current issues, though it would take
just a little bit of drilling to exploit its
resources to the fullest that we can.
In
my own imagination, I tend to organize
Peirce's ideas about information, along with
its relationship to comprehension and
extension, in what certain accidents of
personal history lead me to think of as the
light-cone picture — but it's really
just the two branches of a geometric cone, or
the pencil that is generated by a point in a
lattice or partial order, with no real
connection to physics intended, at least, not
so directly as the picture at first
suggests:
` ` ` ` ` ` ` ` ` ` ` ` ` ` ` ` `
` ` ` ` ` ` ` ` ` ` ` ` ` `
` ` ` ` ` ` ` `
` ` ` ` ` o.......o ` ` Properties` ` ` ` `
`
` ` ` ` ` ` ` ` ` ` ` ` ` `` ` `/` ` ` ` `
` ` ` ` ` ` ` ` `
` ` ` ` ` ` ` ` ` ` ` ` `
` ...
- Information Equals Comprehension Times Extension
Information,
Comprehension, Extension:
Another
angle from which to approach the incidence of
signs and inquiry
is by way of Peirce's
"theory of information" —
yes, that's just what he called it, from the
time of his lectures on the "Logic of
Science" at Harvard University (1865) and the
Lowell Institute (1866).
When it comes to
the supposed reciprocity between extensions and
intensions,
Peirce, of course, has another idea, and I
would say a better idea, in part, because it
forms the occasion for him to bring in his
new-fangled notion of "information" to
mediate the otherwise static dualism between
the other two. ...
- Propositional Equation Reasoning Systems
: Note. ...
- Futures Of Logical Graphs
This article develops an extension of Charles
Sanders Peirce's Logical Graphs.
Introduction:
I think I am finally ready to speculate
on the futures of logical graphs that will be
able to rise to the challenge of embodying
the fundamental logical insights of
Peirce.
For the sake of those who may be
unfamiliar with it, let us first divert
ourselves with an exposition of a standard
way that graphs of the order that Peirce
considered, those embedded in a continuous
manifold like a plane sheet of paper, without
or without the paper bridges that Peirce used
to augment his genus, can be represented as
parse-strings in Asciiish and sculpted into
pointer-structures in computer memory.
A
blank sheet of paper can be represented as a
blank space in a line of text, but that way
of doing it tends to be confusing unless the
logical expression under consideration is set
off in a separate display.
For example,
consider the axiom drawn in box form
below:
` `
` ` ` ` ` ` ` ` ` ` ` ` ` ` ` ` ` ` ` ` ` ` `
`
` ` ` ` ` o-----------o ` ` ` ` ` ` ` ` `
` ` ` ` `
` ` ` ` ` | ` ` ` ` ` | ` ` ` ` `
` ` ` ` ` ` ` ` `
` ` ` ` ` | o-------o | `
` ` ` ` ` ` ` ` ` ` ` ` `
` ` ` ` ` | | ` `
` | | ` ` ` ` ` ` ` ` ` ` ` ` ` `
` ` ` ` `
| | ` ` ` | | ` ` ` = ` ` ` ` ` ` ` ` ` `
`
` ` ` ` | | ` ` ` | | ` ` ` ` ` ` ` ` ` ` ` `
` `
` ` ` ` ` | o-------o | ` ` ` ` ` ` ` `
` ` ` ` ` `
` ` ` ` ` | ` ` ` ` ` | ` ` ` `
` ` ` ` ` ` ` ` ` `
` ` ` ` ` o-----------o
` ` ` ` ` ` ` ` ` ` ` ` ` `
` ` ` ` ` ` ` `
` ` ` ` ` ` ` ` ` ` ` ` ` ` ` ` `
`
We can write this in line
as "(()) = " or set it off as follows:
:
(( )) ...
- Inquiry Driven Systems
* I will be collecting some materials and
developing some proposals here just in case
anybody is still around. ...
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