Re: [ontolog-forum] Monica Anderson on AGI

[Duane Nickull <dnickull@xxxxxxxxx>]

Thank you John!   Inspirational!

Duane


On 4/3/11 5:47 PM, "John F. Sowa" <sowa@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> On 4/3/2011 8:03 PM, Duane Nickull wrote:
> > I always find thinking about thinking difficult.
>
> Don't worry about that.  Everybody finds it difficult.
>
> That's why it's helpful to find quotations from people
> who have thought long and hard about similar issues.
>
> Following is an example:
>
> > Since the synthesis of empirical concepts is not arbitrary
> > but based on experience, and as such can never be complete
> > (for in experience ever new characteristics of the concept
> > can be discovered), empirical concepts cannot be defined.
> >
> > Thus only arbitrarily made concepts can be defined
> > synthetically. Such definitions... could also be called
> > declarations, since in them one declares one's thoughts
> > or renders account of what one understands by a word. This
> > is the case with mathematicians.
>
> Source:
>
> Kant, Immanuel (1800) _Logik:  Ein Handbuch zu Vorlesungen_, translated
> as _Logic_ by R. S. Hartmann & W. Schwarz, Dover, New York, 1988.
>
> If a quotation from Kant isn't sufficient, it's possible to find
> supporting quotations other notables, such as Peirce, Whitehead,
> Wittgenstein, and Waismann.
>
> John
>
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