From: Ian Glendinning (ian@psybertron.org)
Date: Sun Jul 27 2003 - 00:48:57 BST
David,
I don't do long posts :-)
I think I'm using bootstrapping the same way Pirsig does.
(In Chap11 p125 of my 25th Anniv Edition Vintage Paperback of ZMM.)
In a model which is self-consistent but circular, fixing one variable
provides a valid population for the rest, but of course it is one of many
possible valid populations unless your fixed variable is fixed in some
absolute sense independant of the model.
Ian
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Subject: RE: MD The Intellectual Level
Ian said:
What is necessary with self-describing models is some bootstrapping. But
this is a pragmatic issue, and the model is valid without any particular
bootstrap. Of course anyone whose quest is to find a bootstrap for the whole
universe will be disappointed with this,...
dmb asks:
Bootstrapping? Please tell me exactly what you mean. No post is too long. I
promise to read every word of your explanation.
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