Category Archives: Inquiry

Absurdum Quid

Posted on April 22, 2013 by Jon Awbrey

I am thus justified in saying that the feeling of absurdity does not spring from the mere scrutiny of a fact or an impression, but that it bursts from the comparison between a bare fact and a certain reality, between … Continue reading →

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The Way The Cookie Uncrumbles Itself

Posted on April 16, 2013 by Jon Awbrey

I put down the cup and turn to my mind.  It is up to my mind to find the truth.  But how?  What grave uncertainty, whenever the mind feels overtaken by itself;  when it, the seeker, is also the obscure … Continue reading →

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A Meno Acid

Posted on March 21, 2013 by Jon Awbrey

What answers to the Meno Paradox Comes in the moment of realizing — Gathering together the building blocks Is just the beginning of the building.

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Oracles

Posted on March 1, 2013 by Jon Awbrey

Computing, in its way, and science, in its broader way, both involve the relation between what appears limited and what appears not. Whether you believe in divinity or not, and whether you believe that humanity contains a spark of divinity … Continue reading →

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Quotiens?

Posted on February 28, 2013 by Jon Awbrey

How many times do I repeat the same experience? Before I come to see it as the same experience?

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Poems and Programs

Posted on February 27, 2013 by Jon Awbrey

Words that do … A trendy misunderstanding has reared its head as to what the discipline of computing, indeed the logic of science, are all about.  I blame Penrose, of course, but he is only the most recent promulgator of … Continue reading →

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Theme One • A Program Of Inquiry 4

Posted on February 14, 2013 by Jon Awbrey

Re: Next Polymath Project • What, When, Where? Here’s a bit of data on the Theme One Program I worked on all through the 1980s.  My aim was to develop fundamental algorithms and data structures to support an integrated learning … Continue reading →

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Château Descartes

Posted on February 14, 2013 by Jon Awbrey

But if we are to select those dimensions which will be of the greatest assistance to our imagination, we should never attend to more than one or two of them as depicted in our imagination, even though we are well … Continue reading →

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The Difference That Makes A Difference That Peirce Makes • 1

Posted on February 7, 2013 by Jon Awbrey

Being one who does not view Peirce’s work as a flickering foreshadowing of analytic philosophy, logical whatevism, or anything else you want to call it, but leans more to thinking of the latter philosophies as fumbling fallbacks losing what ground … Continue reading →

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Ask Meno Questions • Code Meno Code

Posted on February 4, 2013 by Jon Awbrey

Adapted from Prospects for Inquiry Driven Systems The Trees, The Forest A sticking point of the whole discussion has just been reached. In the idyllic setting of a knowledge field the question of systematic inquiry takes on the following form: … Continue reading →

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