October 2020 Seminar Summary

Sunday 25th October 2020
11 am - 2:00pm on-line (by ZOOM)

"Your Favourite GS Formulation"

From the rich field of general semantics formulations,
we each selected one of our favourites, for discussion.

Presented by Mr David Hewson.

Here are a few of the formulations from which we chose a few to consider ...

Abstracting Action by contact (non)-Allness Aristotle's three laws: Assumptions Assumptions of infinity Asymmetric relations Background/context effect Behavioural habit patterns Bypassing Canalisation Cause-effect Communication is imperfect Compare things at the same abstraction level Conditionality of conditional reactions Consciousness of abstracting. Words and meaninglessness Degree orientation Delayed reactions Differences in similarities Dynamic process E-Prime and EMA Either / Or replaced by And/Also Elementalism Evaluating Expectations Extensional and Intensional orientation Extensional definition vs Intensional definition Extensional devices: Indexes Dating Quotation Mark Hyphen Etc. Extroverted introvert Fact –inference distinction / confusion Fidoism – Fideism General-semantics Group names, Happiness and minimum expectations Identification of orders of abstraction Identification: I.F.D. disease Inductive-Deductive method of science. Inferential knowledge Intensional Orientation / Language Interpolation and extrapolation Jumping to conclusions Language Logical fate Language affects human evaluating Language should be structurally similar Levels of Abstraction Levels of Abstraction - the Structural Differential Levels of knowledge: Life as an asymmetric relation Limitations of senses: Logical fate

Map is not the Territory Map is not ALL the territory Map is not the territory Map should be structurally similar Maps can be made of maps Mathematics Meta-level maps about maps Modern science Multimeaning, multiordinal Multiordinality of terms Multivalued logic. Multi-valued vs. two-valued Neurolinguistic feedback Neuro-semantic environments Neuro-semantic and neuro-linguistic Non-Aristotelian Non-allness vs Allness Non-elementalism Non-additivity, non-linear Non-identity Nonverbal communication, Operationalism Orders of Abstraction Organism-as-a-whole Over/Under defined terms. Postulational methods. Projection of properties onto realist Projecting Propositional and doctrinal functions, Psycho-logical reactions. Questions, type  Relational methods Relative invariance of function/structure under transformation Sapir-Whorf-Korzybski Hypothesis Scientific Method science as method Self-reflexiveness Semantic reaction Semantic Reaction Semantic relaxation method. Sensory awareness. Silent-level abstracting. Snarl and purr words, Specification and generalisation.  Spiral character of abstracting Structural Differential. Structure Symbol reactions Time-binding “Transacting”, interactive The question of “why” Talking (symbolizing) Time-binding Transducing Uncertainty principle uncertainty Uncritical Inferences Test Undefined terms Undefined terms / Unswerable questions “Unsanity” as a term Verbal/non-verbal (silent) levels Verbal-non-verbal isomorphy Viewpoints

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