Posted by
Kenneth Lloyd on
URL: http://friam.383.s1.nabble.com/The-society-of-mind-tp585264p586777.html
Dave,
Thanks for the quote, and it's wonderful insight.
Aristotle, Socrates, and Plato were excellent teachers. But the knowledge
they imparted contains artifacts - meaning errors and critical omissions -
that must be overcome even today.
The gist of the Gödel / Hilbert conflict is that it changed the nature of
science from a search for the truth to "separating what is probably true
from the demonstrably false". From H. Pollack -- Uncertain Science,
Uncertain World.
What we believe we know is always in the context of our culture and our
time. That is always subject to Quine's paradox.
Ken
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> Subject: [FRIAM] an interesting quote
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>
> Came across this when looking at Peter Naur's work on
> programming - thought it might be interesting to some
> involved in the mathematics issues of debate recently -
> especially the ones dealing with mathematics "privileged" status.
>
>
> " ... ignorance towards any form of knowledge other than the
> one that builds on the Aristotelian concept of epistemea
> logically and terminologically elaborated system of
> situation-invariant
> (generally) true propositions. The focus on episteme in the
> Western sciences has lead to an unjustified and systematic
> prioritization of episteme and at the same time to a
> disparagement and exclusion of alternative forms of
> knowledge. Before the invention of the episteme, the ancient
> Greeks also considered techne (the technical know-how
> enabling to get things done) and phronesis (the practical
> wisdom, drawn from social practices) as forms of knowledge.
> While episteme is not embedded in the everyday practice of
> action and communication among humans, both techne and
> phronesis are ..."
>
> davew
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