Operational I

Month, Day: 166, Names, Grandeur (Beauty)

Expect several of these posts, hence the title suggests a starting point.

One thing that being of an operational mindset brings is a working framework. Not limiting this to the usual, such as we see from the write up on Operational Definition, where do we categorically obtain our knowledge so as to not be underdetermined?

To begin with, we know that the Writings are the BASIS in more ways than we can know now. The argument about propositional usage raises a query, can the Writings be the founding for operational truth?

One difference between an approach, such as that of Audacity, and the modern viewpoint can be found in acceptance of the necessity for being quasi-empirical.

Even though an operational stance stresses measurement and effectiveness of its application, what goes wrong is that all attempts at reductionism lose touch because of several factors. One of these is no way to test, through the known rules, that which the imagination created. Too, the working views, for the most part of an operational flavor, have developed a filter for things unpalatable to their stability.

So, we'll have to look at the lines between Science and Religion and consider a change in view that recognizes the continuing Role.

Remarks:

11/21/2010 -- What motivates, indeed.

09/26/2009 -- An issue for the Operational view.

09/06/2009 -- Operational II and more. Essentially, more is undecidable than we like to admit, basically due to our talent for success (ergodicity, essentially) keeps the hubris refreshed (generation by generation).

Modified: 11/21/2010