Re: Teleology and vitalism

[John M <***>]

Ayten,
isn't your
>... I did interprete abstracting as picking a
> piece out of something, a bigger whole, such as an art work or a
scientific
> discovery.<
indeed a reductionist modeling (at whim or some boundary condition)?
I took the more profound meaning of 'abstraction' when imposing it into
human development that lead to language communication:
I figured that abstracting is the capability (and process) of comapring the
not-so-identical members of a pattern - recognizing the pattern as such,
and finding the common features in them. So an abstraction would duly
identify a pattern by its chatacteristic - and all included - features while
disregarding the individual differences not preventing the pattern issue.

John M


----- Original Message -----
From: "Ayten Aydin" <***>
To: <***>
Sent: Sunday, April 04, 2004 9:32 AM
Subject: Re: Teleology and vitalism


> Tim,
> Thank you for your clarification.
SNIP
> My best,
> Ayten
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Tim Gwinn" <***>
> To: <***>
> Sent: Sunday, April 04, 2004 3:32 AM
> Subject: Re: Teleology and vitalism
> SNIP
> >
> > Regards,
> > Tim
> >