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> From: owner-moq_discuss@venus.co.uk
> [mailto:owner-moq_discuss@venus.co.uk]On Behalf Of PzEph
> Sent: Sunday, 17 December 2000 6:58
> To: moq_discuss@moq.org
> Subject: Re: MD EITHER/OR, BOTH/AND
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> ELEPHANT TO CHRIS:
>
> CHRIS ADVISED ME:
> > IMHO you need to review recursive dichotomisations and include the
> > sameness/difference dichotomy in this study.
>
> ELEPHANT:
> Chris, I never did get to understand the exact meaning of "recursive" in
> your "recursive dichotomisations". But if you think that sameness (or
> "resemblance") and difference pose interesting questions that ought to be
> the center of some deep study, you are quite right, if a few years behind
> the times. Have you actually read any Plato?
>
yes -- part of the philosophy program I was doing at uni together with
general philosophy reading ..about 20 years ago. :-)
what you seem to fail to understand (re your comment 'few years behind the
times') is that as we learn more and more about the
neurological/psychological functions of 'in here' so we need to review past
attempts at analysis.
My perspective is to use the 'recent' discoveries re neurological
functioning using recursion and see what 'pops' out.
What pops out with only three levels of recursion is a template usable at
all levels of analysis representing fundamental object/relationship
distinctions that we then particularise to establish specific meanings. Thus
for any particular theme using dichotomous analysis we can identify generic
states and tie them to particular terms.
For the MOQ we can identify areas (e.g. the static/dynamic distinctions
initially tie into relational space) and from those extrapolate based on the
template we have and then 'see' what we end up with i.e. its value as a tool
for teaching information fundamentals.
Plato et al worked without conscious understanding of this sort of
information/method and so lacked precision :-) We are now in a position to
improve on 'old' reasoning but that requires a degree of separating chaff
from wheat :-)
- Chris.
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