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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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| − | 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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