[FRIAM] sometimes an onion is just an onion...

[glen ☣]

On 06/14/2017 01:29 PM, Marcus Daniels wrote:
> The meaning is clear, but is this a term that is used in particular communities?   The reason I ask is that I deal with people all that time that do this, and I'd like to be able to whack a book over their head, since  they like to do that to others.

On 06/12/2017 10:39 AM, glen ☣ wrote:
> Cf Brian Cantwell Smith in: https://global.oup.com/academic/product/philosophy-of-mental-representation-9780198250524?cc=us&lang=en&

It's not clear to me how common the usage is.  In B.C. Smith's "On the Origin of Objects", he calls it "inscription error" instead.  In the book cited above, he states that he prefers "premature registration", mainly because it applies not only to programming/inscribing, but to things like what happened in this discussion (where Nick and Steve prematurely clamped on an onion metaphor I didn't intend).  I still prefer inscription error when I use it in a simulation context because the meaning is more clear.  In logic or rhetorical contexts, the standard "petitio principii" still works.


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☣ glen