[FRIAM] Sociocracy

2009-08-14 Thread Robert Cordingley
Further to today's FRIAM discussion, I noticed that the wikipedia article on Sociocracy reports that: Sociocratic principles are now applied to many organizations around the world. These include corporations, small businesses, nursing homes, university departments, ecovillages and cohousing co

Re: [FRIAM] Re-ignition?

2009-08-14 Thread Victoria Hughes
a-HA! JUST as I thought. Or sensed. Or experienced. Tory On Aug 14, 2009, at 12:20 PM, Douglas Roberts wrote: Our sense perceptions, when thus treated as the paralogisms of natural reason, can never, as a whole, furnish a true and demonstrated science, because, like metaphysics, they exc

Re: [FRIAM] Re-ignition?

2009-08-14 Thread Douglas Roberts
Quite good! I'll add that one to the list. --Doug Certainly, the never-ending regress in the series of empirical conditions can be treated like our understanding, as any dedicated reader can clearly see. On Fri, Aug 14, 2009 at 12:32 PM, Roger Critchlow wrote: > Since gibberish generators are

Re: [FRIAM] Re-ignition?

2009-08-14 Thread Roger Critchlow
Since gibberish generators are inherently discipline free, the rule should be to only mock one's own technobabble. -- rec -- FRIAM Applied Complexity Group listserv Meets Fridays 9a-11:30 at cafe at St. John's College lectures, archives,

Re: [FRIAM] Re-ignition?

2009-08-14 Thread Douglas Roberts
Our sense perceptions, when thus treated as the paralogisms of natural reason, can never, as a whole, furnish a true and demonstrated science, because, like metaphysics, they exclude the possibility of problematic principles, as is shown in the writings of Aristotle. -- Our understanding (and let

[FRIAM] Re-ignition?

2009-08-14 Thread Russell Gonnering
Not to stir the philosophical pot too much, but I spent a delightful day with David Snowden this past week. He started his discussion with a quote from Seneca: “The greatest loss of time is delay & expectation, which depend upon the future. We let go the present, which we have in our powe