RE: ontology

["Roberto Poli" <***>]

The mail was intended as a private communication. I nevertheless have
nothing against its being published on the list, if you thing it would
be appropriate.
cheers, r

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Dr Roberto Poli, PhD
Editor-in-chief of Axiomathes
http://www.kluweronline.com/issn/1122-1151
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: Tim Gwinn [mailto:*** 
> Sent: Saturday, June 07, 2003 1:25 PM
> To: Roberto Poli
> Subject: RE: ontology
> 
> 
> Roberto,
> 
> When I discovered Rosen (just over a year ago) I was awestruck by his
> thinking. Since then, I too have begun to acquire his books 
> and study them
> avidly. And his ideas were a "turning point" for me 
> intellectually as well.
> The world does not look the same to me these days, since I 
> see it through
> such a different perspective now. :)
> 
> I am not in academia or a professional scientist, but I have 
> always had a
> deep interest in philosophy and science and have read a fair 
> amount on my
> own. Few books or thinkers have influenced me as Rosen has.
> 
> By the way, did you intend this email to be private, or 
> through the list? I
> am responding in private since it came to me privately, but I 
> wasn't sure if
> that was your intent. (I also want to make sure there is no 
> problem with
> email addressing of the list messages - when you hit "reply" on a list
> message it should want to reply to the list, not the individual.)
> 
> Regards,
> Tim
> 
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: Roberto Poli [mailto:***
> > Sent: Saturday, June 07, 2003 3:34 AM
> > To: ***
> > Subject: ontology
> >
> >
> > tim,
> > thank you for your answer. A couple of words explaining my
> > interest for RR:
> > I'm a philosopher, working on ontology since ages. Some three
> > months ago an
> > e-mail message posted on the Category list contained a 
> quick reference to
> > Rosen, a name I never heard of before. Some bell started to ring
> > in my head,
> > and I subsequently made some reseach on the web avidly read
> > everything I was
> > able to find. I am now collecting all his books (mainly by 
> interlibrary
> > loan) ans have start studying them carefully. I have still to
> > read his last
> > book (my library ordered it, but it is still on its way). This
> > explains why
> > I was not aware of his ontology-epistemology discussion.
> > To put things in as few words as possible, I discovered the 
> work of a
> > scholar that already developed in great details some of the 
> things that I
> > was slowly trying to elaborate. His analyses of the main dualities
> > (sintax-semantics, quantity-quality, etc) and his theory of the
> > differences
> > between mechanisms and organisms give me the possibility to 
> unify a number
> > of topics and ideas I have worked on during the past 15 years
> > without being
> > able to integrate them appropriately. In this sense, I regard the
> > discovery
> > of Rosen's work as a turning point in my intellectual 
> career. For the time
> > being, the only point in which I may have been able to see 
> a bit further
> > than Rosen is the idea of levels of reality. For almost all 
> the rest his
> > ideas will benefit a lot from his work.
> > cheers, r
> > *************************************
> > Dr Roberto Poli, PhD
> > Editor-in-chief of Axiomathes, Kluwer:
> > http://www.kluweronline.com/issn/1122-1151
> > Papers and other information
> > http://www.mitteleuropafoundation.it
> > preferred e-mail: ***
>