Helmut, Jon,
Jon's quote from Plato about _/nomos/_ is especially suggestive with the
idea of rhythm ("rockabye baby" etc.), and thus is in keeping with ideas
of measure, proportion, (overall) tone (as of a painting), and being in
keeping.
_/Nomos/_ also is used in a more general sense of a law that might be
rather strict rather than proposing some kind of average.
"Norm" in English has more of a sense of an average, and not just any
average.
[Quote Peirce]
...the "normal" is not the average (or any other kind of mean) of
what actually occurs, but of what _/would/_, in the long run, occur
under certain circumstances.
[From "Some Amazing Mazes, Fourth Curiosity", circa 1909, CP 6.327]
Best, Ben
On 1/2/2015 12:05 PM, Helmut Raulien wrote:
Dear Jon, list,
we are talking about "normative science", and, ok, "norma" is a
carpenters square. What is that? And what does all that have to do
with children suffering from sleeplessness?
*Gesendet:* Freitag, 02. Januar 2015 um 17:25 Uhr
*Von:* "Jon Awbrey" <[email protected]>
*An:* "Helmut Raulien" <[email protected]>
*Cc:* [email protected]
*Betreff:* Re: Thoughts On Normative Sciences
Latin "norma" = carpenter's square
Greek "nomos" = custom, habit, law, manner, melody, mode or mood (in
music),
course of masonry (in architecture)
http://www.perseus.tufts.edu/hopper/morph?l=nomos&la=greek#lexicon
| Thus when mothers have children suffering from sleeplessness,
| and want to lull them to rest, the treatment they apply is
| to give them, not quiet, but motion, for they rock them
| constantly in their arms; and instead of silence, they
| use a kind of crooning noise; and thus they literally
| cast a spell upon the children (like the victims of
| a Bacchic frenzy) by employing the combined movements
| of dance and song as a remedy.
|
| Plato, 'Laws', VII, 790D
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