#analogy — Public Fediverse posts

🤦‍♀️ Ah yes, because what the world truly needs is a 7,000th article explaining how recreating #Minecraft is like trying to use a #potato to measure the speed of light. 🥔✨ Spoiler: it’s not, but go on, enlighten us with more groundbreaking #insights.
https://kuber.studio/blog/Reflections/Recreating-Minecraft-is-Not-a-Benchmark #Reboot #Debate #Analogy #Tech #Commentary #Creativity #HackerNews #ngated

🧠⚙️ #Brain vs. #Computer – Why the #Analogy Falls Short

Is the human brain really just a biological supercomputer? A metaphor that, upon closer inspection, falls short by a wide margin!

📺 https://youtu.be/1ouxs6P3Enc

📎 https://philosophies.de/index.php/2022/11/20/das-verkoerperte-bewusstsein/

#Zoomposium #ThomasFuchs #BrainVsComputer #Embodiment #Consciousness #PhilosophyOfMind #Phenomenology #Neuroconstructivism #CognitiveSciences #ArtificialIntelligence #MachineConsciousness #EmbodiedConsciousness #Anthropology #MindAndBrain

If you ask the grass, the zebra is the monster and the lion is the protector.

#perspective #philosophy #value #life #analogy #metaphor

I was amused to see Farage referred to as a ‘coin operated frog’

#Farage #Money #Corruption #Analogy #Joke

We have more important problems than the #reflectingPool swamp in #WashingtonDC

But it's a lightning rod of attention because it's an #analogy, a reflection if you will, of the shitty state of the #USA

Orange narcissist pedophile god emperor claims people are vandalizing it. An immature lie to deflect from his shitty incompetence. So now, in the Land of the Free (tm), merely touching the pool gets you arrested

It hurts #Trump's fee fees. Aww. Can't be anything more important than that! (/s)

🚨🚀 BREAKING NEWS: #Queues are NOT the magical fix for your overloaded apps! 🤯 Apparently, a #bathroom #sink #analogy is supposed to enlighten us on this groundbreaking revelation. 🛁💡 Maybe next, we'll learn that duct tape doesn't fix servers either. 🙄
https://ferd.ca/queues-don-t-fix-overload.html #overload #apps #tech #humor #HackerNews #ngated

🧠 #Brain vs. #Computer💻: Why this #analogy is misleading 🚫

We tend to view the brain as complex #hardware and #consciousness as #software.

📺 https://youtu.be/1ouxs6P3Enc

📎https://philosophies.de/index.php/2022/11/20/das-verkoerperte-bewusstsein/

#Zoomposium #BrainVsComputer #Consciousness #ArtificialConsciousness #ThomasFuchs #Neurophilosophy #Embodiment #Enactivism #PhilosophyOfMind #AI #Digitalization #HardProblemOfConsciousness #Zoomposium #BeingHuman #Phenomenology

Icon, Likeness, Likely Story, Likelihood, Probability • 3

Re: Peirce List • Phyllis Chiasson

A more complete excerpt and the translator’s notes are very helpful here.

A probability (εικος) is not the same as a sign (σηµειον).  The former is a generally accepted premiss ;  for that which people know to happen or not to happen, or to be or not to be, usually in a particular way, is a probability :  e.g., that the envious are malevolent or that those who are loved are affectionate.  A sign, however, means a demonstrative premiss which is necessary or generally accepted.1  That which coexists with something else, or before or after whose happening something else has happened, is a sign of that something’s having happened or being.

An enthymeme is a syllogism from probabilities or signs ;  and a sign can be taken in three ways — in just as many ways as there are of taking the middle term in the several figures :  either as in the first figure or as in the second or as in the third.

• E.g., the proof that a woman is pregnant because she has milk is by the first figure ;  for the middle term is ‘having milk’.  A stands for ‘pregnant’, B for ‘having milk’, and C for ‘woman’.
• The proof that the wise are good because Pittacus was good is by the third figure.  A stands for ‘good’, B for ‘the wise’, and C for Pittacus.  Then it is true to predicate both A and B of C ;  only we do not state the latter, because we know it, whereas we formally assume the former.
• The proof that a woman is pregnant because she is sallow is intended to be by the middle figure ;  for since sallowness is a characteristic of woman in pregnancy, and is associated with this particular woman, they suppose that she is proved to be pregnant.  A stands for ‘sallowness’, B for ‘being pregnant’, C for ‘woman’.

If only one premiss is stated, we get only a sign ;  but if the other premiss is assumed as well, we get a syllogism,2 e.g., that Pittacus is high-minded, because those who love honour are high-minded, and Pittacus loves honour ;  or again that the wise are good, because Pittacus is good and also wise.

In this way syllogisms can be effected ;  but whereas a syllogism in the first figure cannot be refuted if it is true, since it is universal, a syllogism in the last figure can be refuted even if the conclusion is true, because the syllogism is neither universal nor relevant to our purpose.3  For if Pittacus is good, it is not necessary for this reason that all other wise men are good.  A syllogism in the middle figure is always and in every way refutable, since we never get a syllogism with the terms in this relation4 ;  for it does not necessarily follow, if a pregnant woman is sallow, and this woman is sallow, that she is pregnant.  Thus truth can be found in all signs, but they differ in the ways which have been described.

We must either classify signs in this way, and regard their middle term as an index (τεκµηριον)5 (for the name ‘index’ is given to that which causes us to know, and the middle term is especially of this nature), or describe the arguments drawn from the extremes6 as ‘signs’, and that which is drawn from the middle as an ‘index’.  For the conclusion which is reached through the first figure is most generally accepted and most true.  (Aristotle, Prior Analytics 2.27, 70a3–70b6).

Translator’s Notes

1. If referable to one phenomenon only, a sign has objective necessity ;  if to more than one, its value is a matter of opinion.
2. Strictly an enthymeme.
3. If the signs of an enthymeme in the first figure are true, the conclusion is inevitable.  Aristotle does not mean that the conclusion is universal, but that the universality of the major premiss implies the validity of the minor and conclusion.  The example (<all> those who have honour, etc.) quoted for the third figure contains no universal premiss or sign, and fails to establish a universal conclusion.
4. i.e. when both premisses are affirmative.
5. Signs may be classified as irrefutable (1st figure) and refutable (2nd and 3rd figures), and the name ‘index’ may be attached to their middle terms, either in all figures or (more probably) only in the first, where the middle is distinctively middle.
6. Alternatively the name ‘sign’ may be restricted to the 2nd and 3rd figures, and may be replaced by ‘index’ in the first.

Reference

• Aristotle, “Prior Analytics”, Hugh Tredennick (trans.), pp. 181–531 in Aristotle, Volume 1, Loeb Classical Library, William Heinemann, London, UK, 1938.

Resource

• Theme One Program • User Guide • Appendix A

cc: Academia.edu • Cybernetics • Laws of Form • Mathstodon
cc: Research Gate • Structural Modeling • Systems Science • Syscoi

Icon, Likeness, Likely Story, Likelihood, Probability • 2
• https://inquiryintoinquiry.com/2026/05/19/icon-likeness-likely-story-likelihood-probability-2-a/

Re: Peirce List • Phyllis Chiasson
• https://web.archive.org/web/20131211153209/http://comments.gmane.org/gmane.science.philosophy.peirce/11234
• https://web.archive.org/web/20131211034001/http://permalink.gmane.org/gmane.science.philosophy.peirce/11235

I'm still a bit fuzzy on how Aristotle's account relates to Peirce's usage, though I'm pretty sure Peirce must have taken Aristotle's usage into account, but it does seem that Aristotle drew some sort of distinction here, using a term “tekmerion” which gets translated as “index” to make the following remark later on in that chapter.

❝We must either classify signs in this way, and regard their middle term as an index [τεκµηριον] (for the name ‘index’ is given to that which causes us to know, and the middle term is especially of this nature), or describe the arguments drawn from the extremes as ‘signs’, and that which is drawn from the middle as an ‘index’. For the conclusion which is reached through the first figure is most generally accepted and most true.❞ (Aristotle, Prior Analytics, 2.27.70b1–6).

Reference —

Aristotle, “Prior Analytics”, Hugh Tredennick (trans.), pp. 181–531 in Aristotle, Volume 1, Loeb Classical Library, William Heinemann, London, UK, 1938.

Resource —

Theme One Program • User Guide • Appendix A
• https://www.academia.edu/5211369/Theme_One_Program_User_Guide

#Aristotle #Peirce #IconIndexSymbol #Semiotics #SignRelations
#Logic #Mathematics #Probability #ProbableReasoning #Induction
#Inquiry #Analogy #Likelihood #LikelyStory #Likeness #Morphism

Icon, Likeness, Likely Story, Likelihood, Probability • 2

Re: Peirce List • Phyllis Chiasson

I’m still a bit fuzzy on how Aristotle’s account relates to Peirce’s usage, though I’m pretty sure Peirce must have taken Aristotle’s usage into account, but it does seem that Aristotle drew some sort of distinction here, using a term “tekmerion” which gets translated as “index” to make the following remark later on in that chapter.

We must either classify signs in this way, and regard their middle term as an index [τεκµηριον] (for the name ‘index’ is given to that which causes us to know, and the middle term is especially of this nature), or describe the arguments drawn from the extremes as ‘signs’, and that which is drawn from the middle as an ‘index’.  For the conclusion which is reached through the first figure is most generally accepted and most true.  (Aristotle, Prior Analytics, 2.27.70b1–6).

Reference

• Aristotle, “Prior Analytics”, Hugh Tredennick (trans.), pp. 181–531 in Aristotle, Volume 1, Loeb Classical Library, William Heinemann, London, UK, 1938.

Resource

• Theme One Program • User Guide • Appendix A

cc: Academia.edu • Cybernetics • Laws of Form • Mathstodon
cc: Research Gate • Structural Modeling • Systems Science • Syscoi

Icon, Likeness, Likely Story, Likelihood, Probability • 1
• https://inquiryintoinquiry.com/2026/05/17/icon-likeness-likely-story-likelihood-probability-1-a/

Here's a likely locus classicus for “icon” in its logical sense —

❝A probability (εικος) is not the same as a sign (σηµειον). The former is a generally accepted premiss; for that which people know to happen or not to happen, or to be or not to be, usually in a particular way, is a probability:

❝For example, that the envious are malevolent or that those who are loved are affectionate.

❝A sign, however, means a demonstrative premiss which is necessary or generally accepted. That which coexists with something else, or before or after whose happening something else has happened, is a sign of that something’s having happened or being.❞ (Aristotle, Prior Analytics, 2.27.70a3–10).

Reference —

Aristotle, “Prior Analytics”, Hugh Tredennick (trans.), pp. 181–531 in Aristotle, Volume 1, Loeb Classical Library, William Heinemann, London, UK, 1938.

Resource —

Theme One Program • User Guide • Appendix A
• https://www.academia.edu/5211369/Theme_One_Program_User_Guide

#Aristotle #Peirce #IconIndexSymbol #Semiotics #SignRelations
#Logic #Mathematics #Probability #ProbableReasoning #Induction
#Inquiry #Analogy #Likelihood #LikelyStory #Likeness #Morphism

Icon, Likeness, Likely Story, Likelihood, Probability • 1

Here’s a likely locus classicus for “icon” in its logical sense —

A probability (εικος) is not the same as a sign (σηµειον).  The former is a generally accepted premiss;  for that which people know to happen or not to happen, or to be or not to be, usually in a particular way, is a probability:  e.g., that the envious are malevolent or that those who are loved are affectionate.  A sign, however, means a demonstrative premiss which is necessary or generally accepted.  That which coexists with something else, or before or after whose happening something else has happened, is a sign of that something’s having happened or being.  (Aristotle, Prior Analytics, 2.27.70a3–10).

Reference

• Aristotle, “Prior Analytics”, Hugh Tredennick (trans.), pp. 181–531 in Aristotle, Volume 1, Loeb Classical Library, William Heinemann, London, UK, 1938.

Resource

• Theme One Program • User Guide • Appendix A

Related Discussion

• Peirce List • Benjamin Udell • Michael Shapiro

"Erotica"

Personal preference: I don't look to books/storytelling for porn. To me, that's like going to the airport for medicine. I mean, sure, you can find it there, but seems out of place...except in an emergency and your trip won't work without it.

If your story needs pornography to be compelling, it might not be much of a story without it.

#Writing #Analogy

People love to create bad analogies to justify AI (LLMs actually) usage. No, using LLMs to code is not like replacing horses with cars, nor like replacing Vim with IDEs.

First of all, people that live off of analogies are already small thinkers; never trust them, as they are not able to analyze context in depth.

Second, when making analogies in the same field (tech, for example), you have to at least take into account the nondeterminism of LLMs, so don't compare it to deterministic solutions.

Third, the urge to use AI is just to win a race that isn't even real, which is: to please shareholders. Do not bring that shit to open-source, ever.

Fourth and last, using LLMs is not just "another way to accomplish software engineering". The code that was generated will still exist during runtime and will continue to be executed over and over. So you must know all its branches, how it works, how to fix it, how to refactor it, etc. AND NO, IT'S NOT LIKE DRIVING A CAR. Cars have a rigorous, deterministic assembly process and, even though you might not understand how it works but still drive, rest assured that its functioning is well known to the industry.

#AI #LLM #analogy

[en] Big Tech "kill zones": football transfer market #analogy

"... causal evidence that acquisitions by six major US #technology companies [#GAFAM] and IBM create what we call a “kill zone” in startup industries. Just as Manchester United’s acquisition of Rooney signalled to other clubs that competing for top #talent would be futile, #tech giants’ acquisitions appear to #discourage new #market entrants and reduce venture capital #investment ..."

"... debates about digital sovereignty, the future of the European #startup ecosystem, and whether current #antitrust tools are adequate for the #digital age."

"... the economy becomes less #innovative because ... most promising businesses do not grow enough to challenge market incumbents."

https://www.oii.ox.ac.uk/news-events/when-big-tech-plays-like-man-united-how-kill-zones-threaten-europes-future/

#bigtech #digitalsovereignty

🌭 Analogy for yolo quotes about why nobody needs to read or understand AI-generated code anymore.

– Eating corndogs at the state fair. Honestly, you know it is bad for you.

– But if you do not think too much, you can convince yourself that maybe *this* unknown brand of mixed meat is actually healthy.

– As long as you never thoroughly check, you need not validate any correct (or incorrect) assumptions.

🤷 Ignorance is bliss. And lately, I have been encountering a *lot* more willfully blissful people. Even folks who should probably know better.

Personally, I tend to think of AI as info during the Cold War.

> "Trust but verify."

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trust,_but_verify

#ai #analogy #git #humor

Propositions As Types Analogy • 1
• https://inquiryintoinquiry.com/2013/01/29/propositions-as-types-analogy-1/

One of my favorite mathematical tricks — it almost seems too tricky to be true — is the Propositions As Types Analogy. And I see hints the 2‑part analogy can be extended to a 3‑part analogy, as follows.

Proof Hint ∶ Proof ∶ Proposition
∷
Untyped Term ∶ Typed Term ∶ Type

or

Proof Hint ∶ Untyped Term
∷
Proof ∶ Typed Term
∷
Proposition ∶ Type

See my working notes on the Propositions As Types Analogy —
• https://oeis.org/wiki/Propositions_As_Types_Analogy

#Mathematics #CategoryTheory #ProofTheory #TypeTheory
#Logic #Analogy #Isomorphism #PropositionalCalculus
#CombinatorCalculus #CombinatoryLogic #LambdaCalculus
#Peirce #LogicalGraphs #GraphTheory #RelationTheory

Survey of Precursors Of Category Theory • 6
• https://inquiryintoinquiry.com/2025/05/05/survey-of-precursors-of-category-theory-6/

A few years ago I began a sketch on the “Precursors of Category Theory”, tracing the continuities of the category concept from Aristotle, to Kant and Peirce, through Hilbert and Ackermann, to contemporary mathematical practice. A Survey of resources on the topic is given below, still very rough and incomplete, but perhaps a few will find it of use.

Background —

Precursors Of Category Theory
• https://oeis.org/wiki/Precursors_Of_Category_Theory

Propositions As Types Analogy
• https://oeis.org/wiki/Propositions_As_Types_Analogy

Blog Series —

Notes On Categories
• https://inquiryintoinquiry.com/2013/02/22/notes-on-categories-1/

Precursors Of Category Theory
1. https://inquiryintoinquiry.com/2024/05/25/precursors-of-category-theory-1-a/
2. https://inquiryintoinquiry.com/2024/05/26/precursors-of-category-theory-2-a/
3. https://inquiryintoinquiry.com/2024/05/27/precursors-of-category-theory-3-a/
4. https://inquiryintoinquiry.com/2024/05/28/precursors-of-category-theory-4-a/
5. https://inquiryintoinquiry.com/2024/05/29/precursors-of-category-theory-5-a/
6. https://inquiryintoinquiry.com/2024/05/30/precursors-of-category-theory-6-a/

Precursors Of Category Theory • Discussion
1. https://inquiryintoinquiry.com/2020/09/13/precursors-of-category-theory-discussion-1/
2. https://inquiryintoinquiry.com/2020/09/21/precursors-of-category-theory-discussion-2/
3. https://inquiryintoinquiry.com/2020/09/25/precursors-of-category-theory-discussion-3/

Categories à la Peirce —

C.S. Peirce • A Guess at the Riddle
• https://inquiryintoinquiry.com/2012/03/21/c-s-peirce-a-guess-at-the-riddle/

Peirce's Categories
1. https://inquiryintoinquiry.com/2015/10/30/peirces-categories-1/
2. https://inquiryintoinquiry.com/2015/10/31/peirces-categories-2/
3. https://inquiryintoinquiry.com/2015/11/04/peirces-categories-3/
•••
19. https://inquiryintoinquiry.com/2020/05/13/peirces-categories-19/
20. https://inquiryintoinquiry.com/2020/05/14/peirces-categories-20/
21. https://inquiryintoinquiry.com/2020/06/25/peirces-categories-21/

C.S. Peirce and Category Theory
1. https://inquiryintoinquiry.com/2021/06/23/c-s-peirce-and-category-theory-1/
2. https://inquiryintoinquiry.com/2021/06/24/c-s-peirce-and-category-theory-2/
3. https://inquiryintoinquiry.com/2021/06/27/c-s-peirce-and-category-theory-3/
4. https://inquiryintoinquiry.com/2021/06/28/c-s-peirce-and-category-theory-4/
5. https://inquiryintoinquiry.com/2021/06/29/c-s-peirce-and-category-theory-5/
6. https://inquiryintoinquiry.com/2021/06/30/c-s-peirce-and-category-theory-6/
7. https://inquiryintoinquiry.com/2021/07/01/c-s-peirce-and-category-theory-7/
8. https://inquiryintoinquiry.com/2021/07/02/c-s-peirce-and-category-theory-8/

#Aristotle #Peirce #Kant #Carnap #Hilbert #Ackermann #SaundersMacLane
#Abstraction #Analogy #CategoryTheory #FunctionalLogic #RelationTheory
#PrecursorsOfCategoryTheory #PropositionsAsTypes #Semiotics #TypeTheory

#ADHD #perimenopause #quidditch #analogy

Images generated with #PixelStudio. Text my own, inspired by a certain fictional game from the HP series. Everyone's experiences are different, this is just me trying to make sense of my struggles.

What does @MillerLite, #MillerGenuineDraft, @millerhighlife, @Molson_Canadian, #MickeysMaltLiquor, #IcehouseBeer & @Leinenkugels have to do with language & rhetoric & making? Find out in our review of @jdpollack’s #Shortcut: http://the-agency-review.com/shortcut #analogy #writing #marketing

Western liberals: "Capitalism is not the problem. The problem is crony capitalism. What we need is 'real' and 'fair' capitalism where large corporations don't have so much of the market share."
'Yeah, bruh! Cancer is not the problem. The problem is stage 4 cancer. What we need is stage 2 cancer.'

#liberals #neoliberalism #cancer #capitalism #politics #economics #analogy #metaphor #fairness #marketshare #markets #aspiration #perspective #psychology #humannature #huimancondition #philosophy

MARK OF THE BEAST? For those that may have such thoughts ... #religion #security #gov #immigration #law #society #news #opinion #analogy #satire #humor #writing #bookcafe #art_of_review #myth #history #apocallypse #distopian #errtlings #ai #android_dreams #privacy www.bbc.com/news/article...

Switzerland votes on electroni...

RATS IN THE BASEMENT www.bbc.com/culture/arti... #streaming #culture_mirror #appleTV #art_of_review #errtlings #bookcafe #tv #media #culture #society #analogy #critique #review

'It's a wild ride': How The Mo...

If the symfony app I've been working on for the last month (or so) was a piece of writing, I'd say I've just finished the first draft. Everything works as it should but it's very rough around the edges.

#symfony #PHP #analogy

"A mathematician is a person who can find analogies between theorems; a better mathematician is one who can see analogies between proofs and the best mathematician can notice analogies between theories ; and one can imagine that the ultimate mathematician is one who can see analogies between analogies." – Stefan Banach (1892-1945)
#quote #mathematics #maths #math #mathematician #analogy

Geologic Calendar (Geology ⛰️)

The Geologic Calendar is a scale in which the geological timespan of the Earth is mapped onto a calendrical year; that is to say, the day one of the Earth took place on a geologic January 1 at precisely midnight, and today's date and time is December 31 at midnight. On this calendar, the inferred appearance of the first living sing...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Geologic_Calendar

#GeologicCalendar #Analogy #Geology #UnitsOfTime #PopularScience #TimeInAstronomy