Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 14, No. 122.
Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London
<http://www.princeton.edu/~mccarty/humanist/>
<http://www.kcl.ac.uk/humanities/cch/humanist/>
[1] From: Arun-Kumar Tripathi <tripathi@statistik.uni- (10)
dortmund.de>
Subject: Article by Prof. Theodore P. Hill in American
Scientist
[2] From: "Osher Doctorow" <osher@ix.netcom.com> (45)
Subject: Re: 14.0117 thoughts on philosophy
[3] From: Arun-Kumar Tripathi <tripathi@statistik.uni- (6)
dortmund.de>
Subject: [URL] The World Wide Web and Contemporary Cultural
Theory: Magic, Metaphor, Power
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Date: Tue, 18 Jul 2000 07:14:37 +0100
From: Arun-Kumar Tripathi <tripathi@statistik.uni-dortmund.de>
Subject: Article by Prof. Theodore P. Hill in American Scientist
Dear scholars at Humanist,
Hi, I hope --you are doing well and thought --might interest you, that
recently Prof. Theodore Hill has written an article on "Mathematical
Devices for Getting a Fair Share" --which is published in American
Scientist Magazine, the abstract of the essay is available online at
<http://www.sigmaxi.org/amsci/articles/00articles/Hill.html>
In the article, he has discussed Dubin's method and Steinhaus's Ham
Sandwich Theorem, and many more --the article sounds very interesting.
Thank you!
Sincerely yours
Arun Tripathi
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Date: Tue, 18 Jul 2000 07:15:34 +0100
From: "Osher Doctorow" <osher@ix.netcom.com>
Subject: Re: 14.0117 thoughts on philosophy
From: Osher Doctorow osher@ix.netcom.com, Mon. July 17, 2000, 3:58AM
Dear Colleagues:
These are exceptionally interesting fundamental categories - in ordinary
language curiosity, reality, assumptions. Epistemology, metaphysics, ethics
in other terms - although there is something of an overlap of categories in
comparing the two lists. Does what is real depend on our assumptions about
either the real or unreal? How much does what we know depend on what is
real, how much of the real do we know, and how does what we know relate to
what we assume? Does what we are curious about depend on what we know or
what is real, and how? Does what we are curious about reflect our
assumptions or vice versa? The Ancient Greeks were curious about what
looked like a linear universe of straight lines and so their axioms reflect
this curiosity - circles and spheres to them were in many ways merely side
issues determined by real lines (the determination by real lines is true in
many spaces, but the side issues part has been effectively disputed by
non-Euclidean geometry and general relativity). Modern physics and
engineering are especially curious about ratios or division, which
dimensional analysis seemed to indicate the importance of in the real world,
but what about the axiom assumed here - that division makes sense but
subtraction is not important on an equal footing? The question is very
relevant for statistics and probability and hence for all behavioral and
social science research and for computer-related humanist fields.
(Bayesian) conditional probability-statistics is the mainstream "division
oriented" discipline, while non-mainstream logic-based probability is the
subtraction oriented version. The former works fairly well for
frequent/common events and events which influence each other very little or
not at all, while the latter works well for rare events and events which
influence each other fairly well or very much and for events which are
contained in (subsets of) other events. We may well find that the three
pairs of categories are the fundamental irreducible categories of the
universe.
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> Date: Mon, 17 Jul 2000 07:55:00 +0100
> From: Arun-Kumar Tripathi <tripathi@statistik.uni-dortmund.de>
> the
> foundations upon which thinking of any sort must rely"
>
--According Richard Hooker, Philosophys' chief branches
> include logic, metaphysics, epistemology, ands ethics. For more details
> about *The Origins of Western Thought and Philosophy*, please visit
> <http://people.delphi.com/gkemerling/hy/2b.htm> Thank you.
> Best Wishes
> Arun Tripathi))
> *********************************************
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Date: Tue, 18 Jul 2000 07:19:23 +0100
From: Arun-Kumar Tripathi <tripathi@statistik.uni-dortmund.de>
Subject: [URL] The World Wide Web and Contemporary Cultural
Theory: Magic, Metaphor, Power
Dear Humanists,
Hi, the details about the book, "The World Wide Web and Contemporary
Cultural Theory" can be found at:
<http://www.Frontlist.com/catalog/detail.htm/0-415-92502-9>
Thanks!
Sincerely yours
Arun Tripathi
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