Forwarding Addresses —
• inquiryintoinquiry.com
• mathstodon.xyz/@Inquiry
• independent.academia.edu/JonAwbrey
• www.researchgate.net/profile/Jon-...

Cactus Language • Overview
• inquiryintoinquiry.com/2025/03/01/c...

Resources —

Survey of Cybernetics
• inquiryintoinquiry.com/2024/01/25/s...

Pragmatic Theory Of Truth
• oeis.org/wiki/Pragmat...

That brings us to Question 2 —

• What are the forces distorting our representations of what's observed, what's expected, and what's intended?

In that connection Max Weber saw how a state's accounting systems are intended as representations of realities its crew and passengers must observe or perish.

The Founders of the United States, like the Cybernauts of the Enlightenment they were, engineered a ship of state with checks and balances and error-controlled feedbacks for the sake of representing both reality and the will of the people.

Scene 2. Theory and Therapy of Representations • 1
• inquiryintoinquiry.com/2025/02/21/t...

Statistics were originally the data a ship of state needed for stationkeeping and staying on course.

That brings us to Question 1 —

• What are formalisms and all their embodiments in brains and computers good for?

Peirce understood there are more truths in mathematics than are dreamt of in logic — and Gödel's realism should have put the last nail in the coffin of logicism — but some ways of thinking just never get a clue.

We do not live in axiom systems. We do not live encased in languages, formal or natural. There is no reason to think we will ever have exact and exhaustive theories of what's out there, and the truth, as we know, is “out there”.

In my studies it led me from math to psych and back again, with sidelong glances at the history of democratic governance. Its time come round again, I find myself returning to the scenes of two recurring questions.

Scene 1. Pragmatic Truth • Discussion 18
• inquiryintoinquiry.com/2019/11/14/p...

🙞 C.S. Peirce • “Questions Concerning Certain Faculties Claimed For Man”
• www.cspeirce.com/menu/library...

Resource —

Survey of Cybernetics
• inquiryintoinquiry.com/2024/01/25/s...

❝In short, error appears, and it can be explained only by supposing a self which is fallible.

❝Ignorance and error are all that distinguish our private selves from the absolute ego of pure apperception.❞