Thom: Play

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„In play the mind is given over to an eminently combinatorial activity; it constructs and uses a semantic model according to rules that it knows and respects.“ (p. 317) #Thom #play #model #rules

Thom, René, Structural Stability and Morphogenesis: An Outline of a General Theory of Models. Boca Raton, FL: CRC Press 2018.

Process of Reasoning

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„We use the word »all« in a few ways which are defined by the thought processes of reasoning. That is, there are rules which our usage of »all« obeys. We may be unconscious of them, and tend to claim we operate on the basis of the meaning of the word; but that, after all, is only a circumlocution for saying that we are guided by rules which we never make explicit.“ (p. 60) #Hofstadter #rules #meaning #ProcessOfReasoning