Something Completely Different, A Story
Snow Angel
I know I couldn't have gotten out of the State Supreme Court building
any faster, but it wasn't fast enough. The elevator couldn't come
quickly enough and I couldn't wait. The stairs weren't close, but I
didn't care and I banged through the
Editorial: Receivership looms as real budget work remains
The progressive bloc on the Detroit city council blindsided us with their
vote in favor of the mayor's pension bond deal.
^^^
Comment: Blindsided us is a completely inappropriate way to characterize
what the progressive bloc did. To
Thanks for your response, Ralph.
A little internet googling reveals that this concept had an interesting
journey via library science in the 1950's - as a way of conceptualizing
how reality is constructed - and was considered by some as a possible
replacement to the Dewey Decimal system.
Yes,
CB: Hello Steve, Seems to me emergence theory is very much the type of thing
that Engels works on dialectics anticipates. No doubt the works of Soviet
scientists and philosophers are a treasure trove of work in this area that
is as yet only partly touched by Western Marxists.
Hi, Charles. Yes,
Charles wrote:
Yes, this concept of levels of organization or integration really gets at
emergence. For example, biology cannot be _reduced_ to chemistry. There are
emergent or qualitatively new aspects to biology that cannot be explained by
chemistry principles alone.
Emergent levels of
At 09:05 PM 2/22/2005 -0800, Steve Gabosch wrote:
Interesting comment on the Dewey Decimal System. Now I am curious about
how it was invented and constructed, and how Hegelianism was part of
that. The Library of Congress system also has a logic I haven't
investigated but would like to
References:
This is all there is on the subject:
Graziano, E.E. Hegel's Philosophy as Basis for the Dewey Classification
Schedule, LIBRI, vol. 9, no. 1, pp. 45-52.
Library science book, on integrative levels:
Jolley, J. L. The Fabric of Knowledge: A Study of the Relations Between
Ideas.
