補充William W. Scherkenbach2008年台北的演講：Clarence Irving Lewis，Charles Sanders Peirce 的推論模式，EINSTEIN'S DREAMS

2008年，Bill 在台北的演講，關於知識的理論，當時翻譯得很不理想：約第37~39分鐘。

現在補充些資料，

266 Profound Knowledge: A Framework for Change 2008-Oct-16 William W. Scherkenbach

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G0ZlXUYg-bQ&t=2742s


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Han Ching,

I thought is was well known that Einstein had a dream in which he followed an object in an elevator approaching the speed of light.  I learned more about it from a very interesting book by Leshan and Margenau called “Einstein’s Space and Van Gogh’s Sky”.  I have not heard of the novel by Allan Lightman.  Is it a good read?

Keep on learning and making a difference…and having fun

Bill

我搞錯了
談到愛因斯坦之夢，很可能指小說：童元方 有翻譯。

Albert Einstein's Theory of Relativity was introduced on this day in 1905.

"Suppose time is a circle, bending back on itself. The world repeats itself, precisely, endlessly.
For the most part, people do not know they will live their lives over. Traders do not know that they will make the same bargain again and again. Politicians do not know that they will shout from the same lectern an infinite number of times in the cycle of times. Parents treasure the first laugh from their child as if they will not hear it again."
--from EINSTEIN'S DREAMS by Alan Lightman

ABOUT EINSTEIN’S DREAMS

A modern classic, Einstein’s Dreams is a fictional collage of stories dreamed by Albert Einstein in 1905, about time, relativity and physics. As the defiant but sensitive young genius is creating his theory of relativity, a new conception of time, he imagines many possible worlds. In one, time is circular, so that people are fated to repeat triumphs and failures over and over. In another, there is a place where time stands still, visited by lovers and parents clinging to their children. In another, time is a nightingale, sometimes trapped by a bell jar.

Now translated into thirty languages, Einstein’s Dreams has inspired playwrights, dancers, musicians, and painters all over the world. In poetic vignettes, it explores the connections between science and art, the process of creativity, and ultimately the fragility of human existence.
Read more HERE: https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/…/einsteins-dreams-by-a…/

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Clarence Irving Lewis (April 12, 1883 – February 3, 1964), usually cited as C. I. Lewis, was an American academic philosopher and the founder of conceptual pragmatism.

1929. Mind and the World Order: Outline of a Theory of Knowledge. Dover reprint, 1956, link via Internet Archive
這本書現在可在網路看到

Bill 說他的老師及其推論模式


Charles Sanders Peirce (/pɜːrs/,^[9][10] PURSS; September 10, 1839 – April 19, 1914) was an American philosopher, logician, mathematician, and scientist who is sometimes known as "the father of pragmatism".

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles_Sanders_Peirce

Modes of inference

Borrowing a brace of concepts from Aristotle, Peirce examined three basic modes of inference—abduction, deduction, and induction—in his "critique of arguments" or "logic proper". Peirce also called abduction "retroduction", "presumption", and, earliest of all, "hypothesis". He characterized it as guessing and as inference to an explanatory hypothesis. He sometimes expounded the modes of inference by transformations of the categorical syllogism Barbara (AAA), for example in "Deduction, Induction, and Hypothesis" (1878).^[141] He does this by rearranging the rule (Barbara's major premise), the case (Barbara's minor premise), and the result (Barbara's conclusion):

Deduction. Rule: All the beans from this bag are white. Case: These beans are beans from this bag. ${\displaystyle \therefore }$ Result: These beans are white.

Induction. Case: These beans are [randomly selected] from this bag. Result: These beans are white. ${\displaystyle \therefore }$ Rule: All the beans from this bag are white.

Hypothesis (Abduction). Rule: All the beans from this bag are white. Result: These beans [oddly] are white. ${\displaystyle \therefore }$ Case: These beans are from this bag.

查爾斯·桑德斯·皮爾士是美國的通才，實用主義學家。 維基百科

出生： 1839 年 9 月 10 日，美國麻薩諸塞州劍橋

逝世： 1914 年 4 月 19 日，美國賓夕凡尼亞米爾福德

學歷： 哈佛工程與應用科學學院 (1861 年–1863 年)， 哈佛學院 (1862 年)， 哈佛學院

受影響者： 約翰·杜威， 威廉·詹姆士， 卡爾·波普爾， 威拉德·范奧曼·奎因， 更多

啟發者： 伊曼努爾·康德， 格奧爾格·威廉·弗里德里希·黑格爾， 更多