Tuesday, October 6, 2015

HANblogLAKA: Commentary in Shaman Annotation of Logical Philosophy 1/4

HANblogLAKA:  
Commentary in Shaman Annotation of Logical Philosophy 
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 This work is a commentary on Bertrand Russell's three chapter  introduction to the first edition of Principia Mathematica, written as a young man, and published in 1911, co authored with mathematician Alfred North Whitehead.

Links trace to my Hanbloglaka blog posts with Russells introductory text supporting my observations and commentary here.




“With a lifetime artists grow, move on and sometimes come home.

  Love your friends and remember they are always you and all things keep coming back around.”

 -Comic Book Shaman


   








In approaching this subject I urge you to see it as a system of metaphysics rather than mathematics. Memorization is not necessary or particularly useful in understanding it.

 -Comic Book Shaman



The following will contain thousands of words expressing very concise and useful information, but all without a single subject to serve as glue to hold it together.

 -Comic Book Shaman



This “glue” is to be your mind and your thought process. All of the material to come must be processed into our consciousness, and the device to make this happen is the work, Principia Mathematica, itself.
-Comic Book Shaman




 The authors carefully point out that the reason for this work is to train the mind to function without rules. They describe rules for various purposes of learning the material, but are clear that these can and must be left behind as the dharma takes hold and is put to practice.”
-Comic Book Shaman



As the heading Systematic Ambiguity implies the purpose of dealing with any complex problem begins with establishing propositions of various functions and their relations."

-Comic Book Shaman



  It is the function of this work to set out a clear vocabulary and hierarchy we may use to think of and communicate our own complexity in a manageable and intelligible manner.

 -Comic Book Shaman





In dominant culture in most of the world, people follow, and prefer to be ruled by laws, statutes, guidelines, precepts, scriptures, principles, contracts, guarantees, covenants, commandments and all other such static recordings of behavioral intentions; as  requirements to govern the actions and agreements of human beings, among ourselves in all matters and for every reason.

 -Comic Book Shaman


It may be held that all regulation that politicians and religions typically heap upon human character is necessary because persons are good or bad and must be restrained from exercising their base human instincts.

 -Comic Book Shaman


"All of this regulation has evolved from the inadequacy of language to convey abstract concepts, and the resulting misunderstandings that occur constantly and universally among all persons in dominant culture.

 -Comic Book Shaman


Both from the inadequacy of language itself and more so people’s varying capacity to use the language they have, or to transliterate between one language and another.

 -Comic Book Shaman



Above beginning concepts are baby steps towards melting away the constraints of our minds perception. The forms of functions and propositions will be repeated and expanded ahead, and the superb text will provide all the instruction a scholar requires.

 -Comic Book Shaman


Concentrate on learning the material, but do not be too concerned if you can’t seem to memorize it, or bring it clearly to mind even some long way in. This is the nature of metaphysics; page after page of information with no tangible subject or story to bring it to mind.

 -Comic Book Shaman



Eventually things should click if you study with diligence. Vocabulary is also crucial, and I urge you to turn to a good dictionary if any words used are not completely clear. Truly it can make all the difference.

 -Comic Book Shaman




The dots system and other symbols are carefully thought out to compress the language of propositional equations to as short a form as possible.

 -Comic Book Shaman


In fact the entire work is a response to the basic problem of writing about or speaking about very complex subjects, that of the severe limitation of the amount of time and attention the reader or listener is willing or able to devote to taking it in.

 -Comic Book Shaman


As the nomenclature is absorbed and practiced very complex expressions may be absorbed and evaluated instantly, or practically so, without need for time consuming demands of conventional written language or speech.

 -Comic Book Shaman


Also by this system, error manifests itself clearly, so one is not taxed by having to decide whether or not to believe the equation  presented

 -Comic Book Shaman





"The handsome gent in the photo above is a Tlingit shaman circa 1900. His culture was already in flux from half a century of contact with European culture.Centuries old realities were fast changing by concepts and technologies that brought about changes that were unexpected, and affected each person in individual ways.

 -Comic Book Shaman


Cultures rarely rise nor decline by broad strokes, it is more the way that persons perceive, understand and communicate large and small changes among themselves that makes present and future dimensional realities.

 -Comic Book Shaman



The idea of this work is not specifically to be always correct in all assertions, inferences or propositions; it is much more important to be sure that these are not in error. Perhaps these seem like the same thing, but they are heads and tails of the same coin.

 -Comic Book Shaman


One may choose to see a coin as a prospective gumball, or take a more existential view, that there are two dimensional-aspects, whose differences are recognizable and definable as significant fine distinctions; that are useful or not as each person ultimately decides  for herself.  

 -Comic Book Shaman



Tautology is generally not welcome in language, or standard written communication; but it is a building block of thought and the determining of fine distinctions.

 -Comic Book Shaman


Tautology is the repetition of an idea, especially in other words than fit the present context without imparting more clear or forceful emphasis. This is detrimental to speech or journalism in that is wastes time and energy in communicating abstract ideas to others and most often impedes our purpose.

 -Comic Book Shaman


However in the field of logic and logical philosophy under present examination, tautology represents a compound propositional form in which all instances are true or all instances are false. This is useful in our thought process and in propositional notation which we can see, consider and share; without the lengthy exposition that destroys its value by inertia.

 -Comic Book Shaman

Absorption is a process that, within set guidelines allows us to  recognize and convert the nature of more speculative propositions into ones that are more provable, and acceptable.

 -Comic Book Shaman


These propositional equations resemble mathematical equations, but do not function in the same manner. This dissonance causes mathematicians to want to change terms and structures in these introductory chapters, but this is a big mistake.

 -Comic Book Shaman


Any changes or simplifications in the metaphysical construct here affects and corrupts perception, and understanding of the actual mathematical content in the body of Principia Mathematica.

 -Comic Book Shaman


Our introduction here to propositional functions is the key foundation to the author’s system of logical philosophy, and our first step in the process of understanding Indian thought as it existed before first European contact.

 -Comic Book Shaman



One pleasant convention used by the authors is to use terms like “we” and “our” in reference to expanding and explaining parts of the text in such a way as may be taken as including the reader in an 'ownership of understanding' the system described.

 -Comic Book Shaman


I find this very appropriate, because understanding this system is to adopt basic metaphysical changes in our own thought process.

 -Comic Book Shaman


Starting with learning the crazy fine distinctions of functions above; so much of life is filled with contradictions, as we move ahead we learn to sort random functions into appropriate groups, types and classes: that allow us to solve problems that appeared to be unsolvable contradictions.

 -Comic Book Shaman


The ultimate purpose of this system is to attempt to eliminate the vagaries of language in thinking about, and expressing to others any complexity, abstract thought, or system of expression.

 -Comic Book Shaman


Another subject may have been chosen to more or less equal effect, but probably it was assumed that anyone interested in this system would already be familiar with some or much of Mathematics.

 -Comic Book Shaman



Already it may be seen that with familiarity of the system it is not only possible, but spotting errors of facts become obvious, and thus future arguments are not made with these as a foundation.

 -Comic Book Shaman



The authors are careful to lay out clear and redundant examples of the use of dots in constructing propositional equations. It is a cause of my delight in this work, shifting letters denoting variables, for it proves to be the essence of this work. We learn the rules that are a ladder we must step off of: into practice.

 -Comic Book Shaman






The difficulty of language and rhetoric in modern life is that of being sure of our truth in what we are expressing, or even in thinking, when it comes to complex thought and abstract ideas.

 -Comic Book Shaman


Even in combining a number of simple, elemental ideas you think everyone can agree are true, one soon reaches complexities of divergence, where agreement becomes problematic.”

 -Comic Book Shaman



As we wish to examine problems regarding one, or some number of complex propositions that may be general or specific, or a combination of both, this task is quite possible for an ordered mind to undertake.

 -Comic Book Shaman


A more difficult undertaking is to express any results of our calculations to others. Perhaps even to ourselves, in a concise, meaningful and coherent fashion verbally, or even in writing.

 -Comic Book Shaman


The use of language is always painfully inadequate to the purpose of expressing, let alone proving complex abstract propositions to another person.

 -Comic Book Shaman


Any acceptance or rejection of equations based on such propositions in the end, is partially or mostly based on emotion, intuition, affection, dislike or any number of other reasons unrelated to the data presented.

 -Comic Book Shaman



Not that the audience is incapable of understanding the equation, or even that the author is inadequate in expressing it; the problem lies with the nexus of the meeting of expression into comprehension by means of language.

 -Comic Book Shaman


These precepts will allow the consideration and expression of any complexity in total, or multiple wildly diverse complexities in equational form, to any purpose that clearly displays any error for all to see, the author included. By this means other authors may benefit, understanding the equations, and in turn acting as a guide to translate the complexity accurately back into language.
 -Comic Book Shaman





http://unagualcarlosdispora.blogspot.com/2015/10/hanbloglaka-commentary-in-shaman.html


Hear Bertrand Russell speaking from middle age circa wartime [WWII].

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