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itself resist analysis, since it is precisely to save the effort of
 
itself resist analysis, since it is precisely to save the effort of
 
repeating routine analyses that the whole infrastructure is built.
 
repeating routine analyses that the whole infrastructure is built.
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=====1.3.5.8. A Puckish Ref=====
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| Our subjective compulsion to believe in logic only reveals that,
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| long before logic itself entered our consciousness, we did nothing
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| but introduce its postulates into events:  now we discover them in
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| events -- we can no longer do otherwise -- and imagine that this
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| compulsion guarantees something connected with "truth".
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| (Nietzsche, 'The Will to Power', S 521, 282-283).
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In a formal inquiry of the sort projected here, the less the discussants
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need to depend on the compliance of understanding interpreters the more
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they will necessarily understand at the end of the formalization step.
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It might then be thought that the ultimate zero of understanding expected
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on the part of the interpreter would correspond to the ultimate height of
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understanding demanded on the part of the formalizer, but this assumption
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neglects the negative potential of misunderstanding, the sheer perversity
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of interpretation that our human creativity can bring to bear on any text.
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But computers are initially just as incapable of misunderstanding as they
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are of understanding.  Therefore, it actually forms a moderate compromise
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to address the task of interpretation to a computational system, a thing
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that is known to begin from a moderately neutral intitial condition.
   
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