Month: December 2024

Text Images and Attached PDF from HOW REAL IS REAL by Paul Watzlawick The Full Downloadable PDF from which the text images are drawn First the Overarching Role of Theory shows that “How we see things” plays a pivotal role in “What we See.” The Two Realities by Paul Watzlawick In the text above the… Continue reading Objective versus Subjective Reality

A Paper that is part of Stanford Encyclopedia was foundational in my devising Particle Level Emergence, Limitation Philosophy’s concept of being, and the emergence of limitless personality from the operations of the boundless universe. The technical aspects such a coincidence and dependence are best explained by reading their source. Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy>Emergent-Properties This post… Continue reading The Larger Concept of Emergence

This Post is under construction, but in summary. Limitation Philosophy has some similarity to both of these philosophic definitions, but the differences are significant enough that Limitation Philosophy is neither pantheistic nor is it Deistic. Deism Inescapable anthropomorphisms are essential to the definition of Deism. The idea requires an anthropomorphic deity. God creates (implies special… Continue reading Pantheism and Deism

Jakob Bronowski Article in American Scientist Not being a mathematician or a trained logician I was surprised when I read this article by an eminent scientist of the past saying that mathematical language was not precise for the same reasons that spoken and written language are. I have become aware of the imprecision of language… Continue reading Bronowski Logic of Mind

When the Solution Being Pursued is the Problem, a specific kind of change becomes necessary, second order change. Link to Downloadable PDF on Second Order Change

“If men define situations as real,they are real in their consequences.” William Issac Thomas,quoted by Sylvia Sussman in Views Magazine, summer 1965 Is Limitation Philosophy a Utopian Solution? Reading a chapter from CHANGE: Principles of Problem Formation and Problem Resolution by Paul Watzlawick, John Weakland and Richard Fisch I have been examining how Limitation Philosophy… Continue reading Utopian Solutions

Foundational to Limitation Philosophy, General Semantics enables its informal logic to function and informs its epistemology. Links to a Hard to Find Essay by Arthur Korzybski The Role of Language in the Perceptual ProcessesBy Arthur KorzybskiKorzybski Final Essay Part One The Role of Language in the Perceptual ProcessesBy Arthur KorzybskiKorzybski Final Essay Part Two An… Continue reading General Semantics