G/M -
Hairsplitting here (again), but I don't see what Nick or I did as
*premature* registration, maybe *mis*registration? Or am I being
"premature" again?
BTW, B. Cantwell's "Origin of Objects"! What a classic, I haven't heard
anyone else reference this one in forever!
Marcus' riff on various archetypes of Agents capable of (having the
propensity for) various types of errors is nearly poetic... and might
even have some value in a nuanced agent-model of social (especially
online, like this) interactions...
Or maybe it was just snark. Seems like the Snarky Agent is a pretty
complex one... bit more sophisticated than the Critic archetype?
- S
On 6/14/17 2:43 PM, glen ☣ wrote:
On 06/14/2017 01:29 PM, Marcus Daniels wrote:
The meaning is clear, but is this a term that is used in particular
communities? The reason I ask is that I deal with people all that time that
do this, and I'd like to be able to whack a book over their head, since they
like to do that to others.
On 06/12/2017 10:39 AM, glen ☣ wrote:
Cf Brian Cantwell Smith in:
https://global.oup.com/academic/product/philosophy-of-mental-representation-9780198250524?cc=us&lang=en&;
It's not clear to me how common the usage is. In B.C. Smith's "On the Origin of Objects", he calls it
"inscription error" instead. In the book cited above, he states that he prefers "premature
registration", mainly because it applies not only to programming/inscribing, but to things like what happened in
this discussion (where Nick and Steve prematurely clamped on an onion metaphor I didn't intend). I still prefer
inscription error when I use it in a simulation context because the meaning is more clear. In logic or rhetorical
contexts, the standard "petitio principii" still works.
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