Re: Motives - Was Abduction

Posted by Nick Thompson on Jan 09, 2019; 10:56pm
URL: http://friam.383.s1.nabble.com/Abduction-tp7592140p7592423.html

Hi, Marcus,

 

This is the kind of comment that makes me which I knew more about … um … what it is you do.  I get these intimations that your experience might be very useful to philosophical cogitations if only I could share it.

 

Nick

 

Nicholas S. Thompson

Emeritus Professor of Psychology and Biology

Clark University

http://home.earthlink.net/~nickthompson/naturaldesigns/

 

From: Friam [mailto:[hidden email]] On Behalf Of Marcus Daniels
Sent: Wednesday, January 09, 2019 2:10 PM
To: The Friday Morning Applied Complexity Coffee Group <[hidden email]>
Subject: Re: [FRIAM] Motives - Was Abduction

 

Nick writes:

 

< One solution I am exploring is trying to make every assertion that something is real into a three valued assertion including point of view.  >

 

Confounding variables, like your example with Simpson’s Paradox.   In functional programming, the life history of said person’s evolving point of view might live in a monad (a big object).   Every assertion could be bind inside the monad and access private information.   Sometimes the assertions would fail, but it would fail in a subjective way. 

 

Marcus

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