[FRIAM] Thuram still happening?

Frank Wimberly wimberly3 at gmail.com
Wed Feb 15 15:59:45 EST 2023


Until recently the most common usage of "CBT" was to designate Cognitive
Behavioral Therapy.

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Frank C. Wimberly
140 Calle Ojo Feliz,
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On Wed, Feb 15, 2023, 1:24 PM Prof David West <profwest at fastmail.fm> wrote:

> I will be traveling to Wisconsin tomorrow and miss Thuram.
>
> 2-cents: a word cloud might be a more useful metaphor than a semantic net,
> just because of the formalisms employed in the latter. True a cloud lacks
> explicit links, but such might be lightly sprinkled therein.
>
> Did a huge double take at the last word in Nick's post. CBT, in one of the
> communities I associate with, has a far different meaning than, I think,
> Nick intended. And I would be 'they' used it first.
>
> davew
>
>
> On Wed, Feb 15, 2023, at 11:19 AM, thompnickson2 at gmail.com wrote:
>
> FWiW, I willmake every effort to arrive fed to Thuam by 10.30 Mountain.  I
> want to hear the experts among you hold forth on WTF a cateogory actually
> IS.  I am thinking (duh) that a category is a more or less diffuse node in
> a network of associations (signs, if you must).  Hence they constitute a
> vast table of what goes with what, what is predictable from what, etc.
> This accommodates “family resemblance”  quite nicely.  Do I think animals
> have categories, in this sense, ABSOLUTELY EFFING YES. Does this make me a
> (shudder) nominalist?  I hope not.
>
> Words…nouns in particular… confuse this category business.  Words place
> constraints on how vague these nodes can be.   They impose on the network
> constraints to which it is ill suited.  True, the more my associations with
> “horse” line up with your associations with “horse”, the more true the
> horse seems.  Following Peirce, I would say that where our nodes
> increasingly correspond with increasing shared experience, we have evidence
> ot the (ultimate) truth of the nodes, their “reality” in Peirce’s terms.
> Here is where I am striving to hang on to Peirce’s realism.
>
> The reason I want the geeks to participate tomorrow is that I keep
> thinking of a semantic webby thing that Steve devised for the Institute
> about a decade ago.   Now a semantic web would be a kind of metaphor for an
> associative web; don’t associate with other words in exactly the same
> manner in which experiences associate with other experiences.  Still, I
> think the metaphor is interesting.  Also, I am kind of re-interested in my
> “authorial voice”, how much it operates like cbt.
>
>
>
> Rushing,
>
>
>
> Nick
>
>
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> *From:* Friam <friam-bounces at redfish.com> *On Behalf Of *Eric Charles
> *Sent:* Wednesday, February 15, 2023 10:29 AM
> *To:* The Friday Morning Applied Complexity Coffee Group <
> friam at redfish.com>
> *Subject:* Re: [FRIAM] Thuram still happening?
>
>
>
> Well shoot..... that would do it.... Thank you!
>
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> On Wed, Feb 15, 2023 at 12:28 PM Frank Wimberly <wimberly3 at gmail.com>
> wrote:
>
> Today is Wednesday, isn't it?
>
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> Frank C. Wimberly
> 140 Calle Ojo Feliz,
> Santa Fe, NM 87505
>
> 505 670-9918
> Santa Fe, NM
>
>
>
> On Wed, Feb 15, 2023, 10:19 AM Eric Charles <
> eric.phillip.charles at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> Are the Thursday online meetings still happening? I missed a few weeks due
> to work piling up meetings on, but I'm trying to log in now, and it looks
> like the meeting hasn't started.
>
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