[FRIAM] causality east and west

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Doug,

And Eastern philosophy has a whole different understanding of "argument", I
would suppose, and how one goes about convincing someone of something, if
one does at all.  

Back in the village where I should be this summer, I would never "argue for
" a position or directly try to "convince" my neighbors of anything
directly.  I would get my porch light sot out.  In a village, we try to
"bring people along".  Is that what Eastern "argument" is like? 

n

Nicholas Thompson
Emeritus Professor of Ethology and Psychology
Clark University
ThompNickSon2 at gmail.com
https://wordpress.clarku.edu/nthompson/
 


-----Original Message-----
From: Friam <friam-bounces at redfish.com> On Behalf Of Douglass Carmichael
Sent: Tuesday, July 21, 2020 10:04 AM
To: The Friday Morning Applied Complexity Coffee Group <friam at redfish.com>
Subject: Re: [FRIAM] causality east and west

A causes B western view, straight arrow.

The eastern view is  look at the context of A and the context of B in
widening circles of effects  at some point the circles will intersect. In
the western view secondary effects are discardedin the astern view secondary
effect are primary. 

interesting

doug



> On Jul 21, 2020, at 8:57 AM, Jon Zingale <jonzingale at gmail.com> wrote:
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> What about something being permissibly prior rather than just 
> temporally prior? Perhaps, we would use a different word than cause?
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