Re: Self-ascription and "Perfect Model Model"

2012-11-02 Thread Bruno Marchal
ger Clough, rclo...@verizon.net 11/2/2012 "Forever is a long time, especially near the end." -Woody Allen - Receiving the following content - From: Evgenii Rudnyi Receiver: everything-list Time: 2012-11-01, 06:09:50 Subject: Re: Self-ascription and "Perfect Model Model&quo

Re: Self-ascription and "Perfect Model Model"

2012-11-02 Thread Bruno Marchal
On 01 Nov 2012, at 19:13, Evgenii Rudnyi wrote: On 01.11.2012 18:30 Bruno Marchal said the following: On 01 Nov 2012, at 11:09, Evgenii Rudnyi wrote: ... “Absolute Spirit is the fundamental reality. But in order to create the world, the Absolute manifests itself, or goes out of itself in

Re: Re: Self-ascription and "Perfect Model Model"

2012-11-02 Thread Roger Clough
ough, rclo...@verizon.net 11/2/2012 "Forever is a long time, especially near the end." -Woody Allen - Receiving the following content - From: Evgenii Rudnyi Receiver: everything-list Time: 2012-11-01, 06:09:50 Subject: Re: Self-ascription and "Perfect Model Mode

Re: Self-ascription and "Perfect Model Model"

2012-11-01 Thread Evgenii Rudnyi
On 01.11.2012 18:30 Bruno Marchal said the following: On 01 Nov 2012, at 11:09, Evgenii Rudnyi wrote: ... “Absolute Spirit is the fundamental reality. But in order to create the world, the Absolute manifests itself, or goes out of itself in a sense, the Absolute forgets itself and empties

Re: Self-ascription and "Perfect Model Model"

2012-11-01 Thread Bruno Marchal
On 01 Nov 2012, at 11:09, Evgenii Rudnyi wrote: On 30.10.2012 16:25 Bruno Marchal said the following: On 30 Oct 2012, at 12:53, Evgenii Rudnyi wrote: ... You talk for example about integers as a framework for everything. Fine. Yet, I would like to understand how mankind through it devel

Re: Self-ascription and "Perfect Model Model"

2012-11-01 Thread Evgenii Rudnyi
On 01.11.2012 18:00 meekerdb said the following: On 11/1/2012 5:03 AM, Evgenii Rudnyi wrote: On 30.10.2012 17:08 meekerdb said the following: On 10/30/2012 4:45 AM, Evgenii Rudnyi wrote: ... In this chapter, Van Fraassen has considered a map as a model for a typical model. A map is in the o

Re: Self-ascription and "Perfect Model Model"

2012-11-01 Thread meekerdb
On 11/1/2012 5:03 AM, Evgenii Rudnyi wrote: On 30.10.2012 17:08 meekerdb said the following: On 10/30/2012 4:45 AM, Evgenii Rudnyi wrote: ... In this chapter, Van Fraassen has considered a map as a model for a typical model. A map is in the objective world, as well as a scientific model, but

Re: Self-ascription and "Perfect Model Model"

2012-11-01 Thread Evgenii Rudnyi
On 30.10.2012 16:25 Bruno Marchal said the following: On 30 Oct 2012, at 12:53, Evgenii Rudnyi wrote: ... You talk for example about integers as a framework for everything. Fine. Yet, I would like to understand how mankind through it development has invented integers. How comp would help

Re: Self-ascription and "Perfect Model Model"

2012-11-01 Thread Evgenii Rudnyi
On 30.10.2012 17:08 meekerdb said the following: On 10/30/2012 4:45 AM, Evgenii Rudnyi wrote: ... In this chapter, Van Fraassen has considered a map as a model for a typical model. A map is in the objective world, as well as a scientific model, but to use the map one has to find out where on

Re: Self-ascription and "Perfect Model Model"

2012-10-30 Thread meekerdb
On 10/30/2012 4:45 AM, Evgenii Rudnyi wrote: On 29.10.2012 20:44 meekerdb said the following: On 10/29/2012 11:33 AM, Evgenii Rudnyi wrote: On 29.10.2012 19:21 meekerdb said the following: On 10/29/2012 10:21 AM, Evgenii Rudnyi wrote: Some more quotes from From Scientific Representation: Para

Re: Self-ascription and "Perfect Model Model"

2012-10-30 Thread Bruno Marchal
On 30 Oct 2012, at 12:53, Evgenii Rudnyi wrote: On 30.10.2012 11:26 Bruno Marchal said the following: On 29 Oct 2012, at 18:21, Evgenii Rudnyi wrote: Some more quotes from From Scientific Representation: Paradoxes of Perspective by Bas C Van Fraassen. p. 45 "Agreed, we cannot demonstrate t

Re: Self-ascription and "Perfect Model Model"

2012-10-30 Thread Evgenii Rudnyi
On 30.10.2012 11:26 Bruno Marchal said the following: On 29 Oct 2012, at 18:21, Evgenii Rudnyi wrote: Some more quotes from From Scientific Representation: Paradoxes of Perspective by Bas C Van Fraassen. p. 45 "Agreed, we cannot demonstrate that in principle, as a matter of logic, mathematic

Re: Self-ascription and "Perfect Model Model"

2012-10-30 Thread Evgenii Rudnyi
On 29.10.2012 20:44 meekerdb said the following: On 10/29/2012 11:33 AM, Evgenii Rudnyi wrote: On 29.10.2012 19:21 meekerdb said the following: On 10/29/2012 10:21 AM, Evgenii Rudnyi wrote: Some more quotes from From Scientific Representation: Paradoxes of Perspective by Bas C Van Fraassen. p

Re: Self-ascription and "Perfect Model Model"

2012-10-30 Thread Bruno Marchal
On 29 Oct 2012, at 18:21, Evgenii Rudnyi wrote: Some more quotes from From Scientific Representation: Paradoxes of Perspective by Bas C Van Fraassen. p. 45 "Agreed, we cannot demonstrate that in principle, as a matter of logic, mathematical modeling must inevitably be a distortion of wha

Re: Self-ascription and "Perfect Model Model"

2012-10-29 Thread meekerdb
Right. And even less than complete models can run afoul of Godel, e.g. if I created a model of myself. It might be an accurate model, but I couldn't know that it was. On the other hand, John Mikes could know that it was. Brent On 10/29/2012 12:53 PM, John Mikes wrote: Brent, I think if a '

Re: Self-ascription and "Perfect Model Model"

2012-10-29 Thread John Mikes
Brent, I think if a 'model' is *complete*, it is not a model, it is the real thing. Consequently it (as the real thing) is not provable from within - Godel, or not. (dON'T ASK ME ABOUT "real", please ) JM On Mon, Oct 29, 2012 at 2:21 PM, meekerdb wrote: > On 10/29/2012 10:21 AM, Evgenii Rudnyi w

Re: Self-ascription and "Perfect Model Model"

2012-10-29 Thread meekerdb
On 10/29/2012 11:33 AM, Evgenii Rudnyi wrote: On 29.10.2012 19:21 meekerdb said the following: On 10/29/2012 10:21 AM, Evgenii Rudnyi wrote: Some more quotes from From Scientific Representation: Paradoxes of Perspective by Bas C Van Fraassen. p. 45 "Agreed, we cannot demonstrate that in princ

Re: Self-ascription and "Perfect Model Model"

2012-10-29 Thread Roger Clough
--- From: Evgenii Rudnyi Receiver: everything-list Time: 2012-10-29, 13:21:39 Subject: Self-ascription and "Perfect Model Model" Some more quotes from From Scientific Representation: Paradoxes of Perspective by Bas C Van Fraassen. p. 45 "Agreed, we cannot demonstrate that in

Re: Self-ascription and "Perfect Model Model"

2012-10-29 Thread Evgenii Rudnyi
On 29.10.2012 19:21 meekerdb said the following: On 10/29/2012 10:21 AM, Evgenii Rudnyi wrote: Some more quotes from From Scientific Representation: Paradoxes of Perspective by Bas C Van Fraassen. p. 45 "Agreed, we cannot demonstrate that in principle, as a matter of logic, mathematical modeli

Re: Self-ascription and "Perfect Model Model"

2012-10-29 Thread meekerdb
On 10/29/2012 10:21 AM, Evgenii Rudnyi wrote: Some more quotes from From Scientific Representation: Paradoxes of Perspective by Bas C Van Fraassen. p. 45 "Agreed, we cannot demonstrate that in principle, as a matter of logic, mathematical modeling must inevitably be a distortion of what is mod

Self-ascription and "Perfect Model Model"

2012-10-29 Thread Evgenii Rudnyi
Some more quotes from From Scientific Representation: Paradoxes of Perspective by Bas C Van Fraassen. p. 45 "Agreed, we cannot demonstrate that in principle, as a matter of logic, mathematical modeling must inevitably be a distortion of what is modeled, although models actually constructed can