Table 1 of
‘The Four Logics’ and Their Development. A generalization
Copyright 1999-2003. For Educational
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[Several More Elements Added to the
Grid]
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Social Structure |
“Logic” |
Complexity |
When / Why
‘Formalized’ |
Focus |
Associated
Discipline [actively rethinking the
‘logic’] |
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Traditional [contexts, examples, priority] |
Pragmatic /
Informal |
Few examples to explain the whole |
Oral [never really ‘formalized’]. Often ‘remembering’ / integration of opposition as key |
Whole situation a focus, but when to ‘generalize’? / what purpose? |
Negotiation |
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Monarchal/ Hierarchal [revelation, role, connections] |
Formal / Hermeneutics [create boundaries via “excluded middle”] – ‘deductive reasoning’ “Synchronic” ‘Realist’ |
From few [axioms, principles, definitions] to many [conclusions] |
Writing [350 BCE turning point– writing back to 3500] – work with formal print world – meaning and ideals as key |
Meaning and Connection a focus, but how to gain perspective? |
Interpretation, Logic, Anthropology, Biology of closed systems. |
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Enlightenment [values: reason, individualism, progress] [problem: irrationality, elitism, colonialism] |
Digital / Sampling [assume-dictate boundaries from higher level; chance/ arbitrariness proposed] ‘Inductive reasoning’ “Diachronic” ‘Nominalist’ ‘code / encoding / decoding’ |
From many [mass, sample] to few [average, median] – coded version |
Printing [1650 CE turning point – type printing back to 1450] – work with tables and data – arranging data as key |
Power, Organization, and Elitism a focus, and yet who has power to decide? |
Sociology, Poly Sci, |
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Postmodern [values: paradox, relativism, Constructivistism [problem: extremes of relativism, soplicism, |
Scalar / Network [boundaries as process related] “transductive reasoning” |
Many ‘generate’ simpler (emergence of the synergistic next level); simple generates the complex (eg. fractals) |
Computers [1950 turning point – systems back to merchants 1750s] – generating boundary breaks a key; multi-level/dimensional modular integration as a key |
Identities and levels questioned, but are there fundamentals? |
Biology of open systems, Computer Sci, Contemplative Analyis, [network/ complexity analysis, cybernetics] |
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? [Neo-evolutionist] – Still a phase of the postmodern |
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Emergence? How to get beyond solipsism and fragmentation |
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