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[1] From: "Osher Doctorow" <osher@ix.netcom.com> (37)
Subject: Re: 14.0396 primitives, argumentation, markup and
evidence
[2] From: Randall Pierce <rpierce@jsucc.jsu.edu> (11)
Subject: Cognitive connections
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Date: Sun, 22 Oct 2000 07:29:55 +0100
From: "Osher Doctorow" <osher@ix.netcom.com>
Subject: Re: 14.0396 primitives, argumentation, markup and evidence
I must agree with Randall Pierce, although my language is slightly different
and my focus is slightly different. I have recently argued on H-War that
Creative Geniuses play a game unlike most others, in which each move is an
equation or inequality or, in humanist language, a relationship
between/among variables and/or constants. In warfare, the
equations/inequalities are new ones deliberately created by the strategist,
or in humanist language a Trap is created by coordinating several variables
in ways that they have not been usually coordinated before. Outside of
warfare, the equations/inequalities are usually not new ones, but they
involve slight changes in axioms, assumptions, and even definitions to
change the focus to what really is the unsolved problem of interest - asking
the right questions in Randall's terminology.
Osher
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> [1] From: Wendell Piez <wapiez@mulberrytech.com> (72)
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Date: Sun, 22 Oct 2000 07:32:05 +0100
From: Randall Pierce <rpierce@jsucc.jsu.edu>
Subject: Cognitive connections
Re the comments of Jascha Kessler concerning cognitive connections: I
use the word descry to indicate "catching sight of something difficult
to discern." Perhaps I might rephrase my comments and use the word
obfuscate. I have often been accused of doing exactly this when putting
forward a premise or commenting on one of someone else. And yes, I do
"decry" obfuscations which make it necessary to "descry" a point.
"Sociological Primitives" can teach us much. What to cybernetic
technologist may seem "stone-age" is "cutting edge technology to the
"primitive" being addressed.All of this society's vaunted technology is
so much razzle-dazzle if it stands in the way of understanding,
insights, and "cognitive connectons." And thank you, Mr. Kessler for
your kind comments on my "punny" observations. Randall
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