Re: Constructor Theory & Optimism

--- In [email protected], Elliot Temple <curi@...> wrote:
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> On Dec 16, 2012, at 10:56 AM, hibbsa <asbbih@...> wrote:
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> > Unless I missed it, you didn't expand on why this connection shows up
> > (which was fair enough given the scope of the paper).  I was quite
> > interested in why the reason might be....the only visualization I could
> > come up was that you must be envisaging the product of CT as a kind of
> > network of possible routes of discovery, the optimism being that those
> > routes are there. Just a stab...but you got any time to expand on that
> > one a bit?
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> in boi, dd connects optimism with problems being soluble.
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> CT is also connected to problems being soluble (via it saying categories of constructions are possible).
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> -- Elliot Temple
> http://fallibleideas.com/
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This much for sure, but is there a useful theory out there that doesn't say that much as well? Are useful theories that say less than that possible? 
I would imagine the optimism thing has to run much deeper for DD to actually see it as a consequence of CT. 
Another interesting feature of this - I thought - was that whereas he seems to regard the principles that come out of philosophical/BoI stuff will be fed into the system.....one principle of that set - optimism - emerges independently as a consequence. 
I think it would good if more came that way.