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Mathematicianss are shamans, like poets they don't know it. To frame this conundrum of metaphor versus identity I will first look ‘mapping’ as used in mathematics. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Isomorphism (off you go, transport yourself to us all). It would appear that mathematicians use the analogy of ‘mapping’ with some Greek-originating words like isomorphic, or morely nounly, isomorphism to label the process while often retaining ‘mapping’ for…

[notes on boundaries] I've been writing boundaries for various ontologies… Looking at this sentence makes it seem very abstract. If I add that this writing was stuff for work, one may begin to think it is more jargon of a trade than dilettante scholarship, or perhaps, a sign of revolutionary fervour. As trade jargon, one may think it has something to…

This is from an old bunch of notes from two years ago, born digital. If they were handwritten I’d remember better where I was going with the ideas in the notes. I'd even remember whether it was windy that day or not. But now I have trouble telling apart my views from the quotes. Is it a quote, did I…

Dear Galatea, while science has taken up the error rate of our worlding as a virtue, that the noise is the signal, the information is an emotion, in a practice of charms, the categorical error of our making all thought an ontology gives us a method showing less favour on the missteps and trials of life long learning. The boxed-in mistake is…

Kockelman, Paul. 2024. ‘Ontologies and Worlds: The Price of Being Free’, Current Anthropology 65(5): 922–7. via journals.uchicago.edu Kockelman introduces his article as follows: Here is a link for the wikipedia entry on ‘ontological turn’. This is a play on the ‘linguistic turn’ describing philosophical fashions beginning a century ago. It passed me by. I basically cannot stand ontological approaches so…