Feeder Set of First Principles

[Ichthus77 (Ichthus77 (formerly She™))]

What came first: a particular category (i am), or (an) example(s) which/who/that inhabits (is) it (i am)?

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What came first?

What came first...

What came first, the word or the ability to produce and/or comprehend it? I’m studying cognitive processes so they say we’re hard wired to do language … written/read included … as evidenced by double dissociation revealed in damaged brain studies. Got me thankin (I am, therefore I think?) Apologies if other threads go unanswered.

How Does Nature Know?

How does nature know?

“‘If we take in our hand any volume: of divinity or school of metaphysics, for instance; let us ask, Does it contain any abstract reasoning concerning quantity or number? No. Does it contain any experimental reasoning concerning matter of fact and existence? No. Commit it then to the flames; For it can contain nothing but sophistry and illusion.’ [Hume] If, in order to be meaningful, a statement must be either mathematically sustained or scientifically verifiable, then David Hume’s stateme…

Modal Logic Question

Modal Logic Question

Prolly same reason folks prefer Boole to Aristotle on existential import, I’m guessing.

Categories (monad/kleisli)

Terminal and initial monads and kleisli categories (respectively)

My notes on this video as I learn. Please scan for questions & correct any false inferences. categories without elements (instead: constructions of arrows between objects, showing how they relate) three rules for categories: composition (for implementation) identity/unit (object with arrow pointing back to itself) associativity (can be composed in any order) (concatenation of strings) Kleisli category has same objects but different arrows from the ones in Category C (a monad). is this also…

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“Euthyphro”-type Dilemma of Language Ability and Learning

I want to keep this as short, sweet, and simple as I can, so here’s the Euthyphro-type dilemma up front… but we will return to it below: Does what is encoded (the pious/good) get our attention, or is it that what we attend to (the loved/valued) gets encoded? This very condensed post basically shows we are hardwired for language/signal ability and learning in an irreducibly complex and very specified way. I inferred it from what I gleaned from chapter 9, Language, from Radvansky and Ashcraft’s “C…