Re: [FRIAM] On telos- was: When are telic attributions appropriate in physical descriptions?

2024-08-16 Thread steve smith
I'm wondering if there has been a "karmic" analysis of assembly theory (or vice-versa)? On 8/15/24 7:10 PM, Prof David West wrote: I find the "Laws of Karma" illuminating for any discussion of telicity, especially the 'free will' aspect brought up by glen. The Vedic-Buddhist notion of karma b

Re: [FRIAM] On telos- was: When are telic attributions appropriate in physical descriptions?

2024-08-15 Thread Frank Wimberly
Interesting. I find that my elderly self behaves as if physical objects have intentions. If I hurt myself on a piece of furniture I try not to use the Lord's name but I might well call the object an SOB. Frank --- Frank C. Wimberly 140 Calle Ojo Feliz, Santa Fe, NM 87505 505 670-9918 Santa Fe,

Re: [FRIAM] On telos- was: When are telic attributions appropriate in physical descriptions?

2024-08-15 Thread Prof David West
I find the "Laws of Karma" illuminating for any discussion of telicity, especially the 'free will' aspect brought up by glen. The Vedic-Buddhist notion of karma begins with the notion of pan consciousness, everything down to the subatomic particles (or strings) has some degree of consciousness

Re: [FRIAM] On telos- was: When are telic attributions appropriate in physical descriptions?

2024-08-10 Thread Santafe
Quick comment from me, not to the direct point in this post, which I like too, but on something about Snyder which I learned (just off-hand) from a colleague within the past 2 weeks. These ideas about the language of inevitability as one of the devices of tyrants was, I think, argued in much th

[FRIAM] On telos- was: When are telic attributions appropriate in physical descriptions?

2024-08-10 Thread Jon Zingale
I appreciate Timothy's warning for why historians should be sensitive to the use of telic political exposition. That is, he shows why defining telos in terms of finality or pre-determination is both useful and important. In the lecture, Timothy describes a well-known tyrant's *love letter* to a nat