Re: Zeroth Order Ontology

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ZOO.  Discussion Note 11

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I have inscribed a form of expression in a medium of expression.
Here is an epitext to remind you of its expressive potentiality:

   o = Node_1 = http://suo.ieee.org/email/msg11563.html
   |
   @ = Node_2 = http://suo.ieee.org/email/msg11564.html

Just what this form of expression expresses is still up in the air,
and that is the business of interpretation to explore, and by this
exploration to say we might gradually home in to settle on a range
of definite possibilities, or maybe roam on without any settlement.
The wealth of possible meaning is vaster than I care to account or
would dare to delimit -- I think that I can settle for the minimal
formal, prospectively logical potential of the forms of expression
that I intend to inscribe in this medium at the moment in question.

When I visit Node_2 above, and regard the reference to Node_1 above,
it strikes me that I almost reflexively appear to be taking up what
is commonly referred to as a "propositional attitude" -- @titude? --
with respect to the more remote node.  Pursuing my intention toward
generic logical minimalism, I am thus led to ask:  "What would be a
generative but minimal propositional attitude, of a logical variety,
that a thinking agent might take up with regard to a logical value?"

But there is yet another question that intrudes on my reflection.
I think that we all know what a state of blank intention is like,
but I think, again, that most of us would be hard-pressed to say
just what its logical value might be, whether true of false, for
instance, and so I will leave that question blank for the moment.

I think that it's a good thing for the reader to reflect on what
his or her own answers to these questions might be, before I try
to rationalize mine.

Jon Awbrey

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