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An introduction to the topic of formalization, if proper, is obliged to begin informally.  But it will be my constant practice to keep a formal eye on the whole proceedings.  What this form of observation reveals must be kept silent for the most part at first, but I see no rule against sharing with the reader the general order of this watch:

An introduction to the topic of formalization, if proper, is obliged to begin informally.  But it will be my constant practice to keep a formal eye on the whole proceedings.  What this form of observation reveals must be kept silent for the most part at first, but I see no rule against sharing with the reader the general order of this watch:

1. Examine every notion of the casual intuition that enters into the informal discussion and inquire into its qualifications as a potential candidate for formalization.

# Examine every notion of the casual intuition that enters into the informal discussion and inquire into its qualifications as a potential candidate for formalization.

 

# Pay special attention to the nominal operations that are invoked to substantiate each tentative explanation of a critically important process.  Often, but not infallibly, these can be detected appearing in the guise of "-ionized" terms, words ending in "-ion" that typically connote both a process and its result.

2. Pay special attention to the nominal operations that are invoked to substantiate each tentative explanation of a critically important process.  Often, but not infallibly, these can be detected appearing in the guise of "-ionized" terms, words ending in "-ion" that typically connote both a process and its result.

# Ask yourself, with regard to each postulant faculty in the current account, explicitly charged or otherwise, whether you can imagine any recipe, any program, any rule of procedure for carrying out the form, if not the substance, of what it does, or an aspect thereof.

 

3. Ask yourself, with regard to each postulant faculty in the current account, explicitly charged or otherwise, whether you can imagine any recipe, any program, any rule of procedure for carrying out the form, if not the substance, of what it does, or an aspect thereof.

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