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I think your approach has similar problems to that of Leibniz. This might be of interest: http://aynrandlexicon.com/lexicon/concepts.html http://aynrandlexicon

by IsaacL 10y ago

I think your approach has similar problems to that of Leibniz. This might be of interest: http://aynrandlexicon.com/lexicon/concepts.html http://aynrandlexicon.com/lexicon/concepts.html http://aynrandlexicon.com/lexicon/platonic_realism.html http://aynrandlexicon.com/lexicon/platonic_realism.html

vinceguidry 10y ago
Lexicons fascinate me and I often find myself just writing down words that seem to fit together in my mind and doing a little work to create a little ontology with them. Often times I'll find missing concepts and that'll directly lead to an insight about the world. Here's a segment of one I came up with recently before my interest ran out of steam: identification taxonomy discovery location cultivation collection curation meditation organization workflow analytics design management systems mapping maintenance encapsulation problem-solving incident-clearing derisking These are all approaches for working with discrete ideas. The thing about context logic is that it's exceedingly and annoyingly heavy. Once you get the hang of it the mind naturally just wants to push the logic to the periphery and go back to doing things the way it used to. If I'm looking to work with an idea, I might look at that list of verbs and ask myself, "what does this idea need?" There's a converse here of concepts: philosophy research intelligence marketing sales diplomacy finance development engineering operations health service legal political public-relations celebrity monetary economics business branding creative At first I was just writing these concepts down, collecting, then suddenly I realized I needed cultivation. So I started just moving them around. Eventually I realized that the former were individual approaches for dealing with ideas and context, while the latter were collective approaches.

by IsaacL 10y ago

vinceguidry 10y ago

Lexicons fascinate me and I often find myself just writing down words that seem to fit together in my mind and doing a little work to create a little ontology with them. Often times I'll find missing concepts and that'll directly lead to an insight about the world. Here's a segment of one I came up with recently before my interest ran out of steam: identification taxonomy discovery location cultivation collection curation meditation organization workflow analytics design management systems mapping maintenance encapsulation problem-solving incident-clearing derisking These are all approaches for working with discrete ideas. The thing about context logic is that it's exceedingly and annoyingly heavy. Once you get the hang of it the mind naturally just wants to push the logic to the periphery and go back to doing things the way it used to. If I'm looking to work with an idea, I might look at that list of verbs and ask myself, "what does this idea need?" There's a converse here of concepts: philosophy research intelligence marketing sales diplomacy finance development engineering operations health service legal political public-relations celebrity monetary economics business branding creative At first I was just writing these concepts down, collecting, then suddenly I realized I needed cultivation. So I started just moving them around. Eventually I realized that the former were individual approaches for dealing with ideas and context, while the latter were collective approaches.