WIANTAMMKIAAMTHMKAN? (We All Psychon ...)

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| In 1923 I gave up the attempt to write a logic of transitive verbs and began to see what
| I could do with the logic of propositions.  My object, as a psychologist, was to invent
| a kind of least psychic event, or "psychon", that would have the following properties:
| First, it was to be so simple an event that it either happened or else it did not happen.
| Second, it was to happen only if its bound cause had happened -- shades of Duns Scotus! --
| that is, it was to imply its temporal antecedent.  Third, it was to propose this to
| subsequent psychons.  Fourth, these were to be compounded to produce the equivalents
| of more complicated propositions concerning their antecedents.
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| Warren S. McCulloch
| "What Is a Number, that a Man May Know It, and a Man, that He May Know a Number?"
| reprinted in ''Embodiments of Mind'', pages 1-18.
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| http://stderr.org/pipermail/arisbe/2001-July/000704.html
| http://generalsemantics.org/misc/akml/akmls/26-27-mcculloch.pdf

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