Reminds me of a conversation I had with the Chair of the Philosophy Department at Carnegie Mellon. I told him that Bertrand Russell fell off his bicycle when he realized that Anselm's proof of the existence of God is valid. Wilfried Sieg (a German) looked concerned but after a few moments he said with relief, "Ah, valid but not sound!" Is that consistent with what you said?
--- Frank C. Wimberly 505 670-9918 Santa Fe, NM On Wed, Mar 11, 2020, 11:44 AM uǝlƃ ☣ <[email protected]> wrote: > Scientific knowledge is more valid [†] because it travels across space and > time better than other forms of knowledge. > > I'd rank "artisanal knowledge" a close second. The apprentice, journey, > master infrastructure worked pretty well, I think. But "financial > knowledge" is a close competitor. I sometimes make the argument that the > merchant class is primarily responsible for peace on earth because > projection from the high-dimensional space of human relations down to a > one-dimensional currency helps everyone get along ... just enough to do > business with one another. > > [†] Validity, in contrast with soundness. All types of knowledge are sound > within their scope, where the scope is exogenous. But validity sets its own > scope, like closure under an operator. Some may say validity is boolean, > where a small system is valid or invalid and a large system is valid or > invalid. But I'd argue that a smaller system is less valid than a larger > system. A *universal* system will be the *most* valid. Or if that bugs you, > it's easy to say, instead, that a valid but so small as to be useless > system is *technically* valid, but nobody cares. What we want is a very > large system that's valid. > > On 3/11/20 10:00 AM, Frank Wimberly wrote: > > Why is one view more valid than the others? Because science (actually > with engineering) has made it possible to send probes to Neptune? Depends > on your goals. > > -- > ☣ uǝlƃ > > ============================================================ > FRIAM Applied Complexity Group listserv > Meets Fridays 9a-11:30 at cafe at St. John's College > to unsubscribe http://redfish.com/mailman/listinfo/friam_redfish.com > archives back to 2003: http://friam.471366.n2.nabble.com/ > FRIAM-COMIC <http://friam.471366.n2.nabble.com/FRIAM-COMIC> > http://friam-comic.blogspot.com/ by Dr. Strangelove >
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