Re: Impredicativity in Rosennean parlance

[Torkel Franzen <***>]

Judith Rosen says:

>The connection was the one my father saw and discusses in the post. He 
>said that causal loops of entailment in complex systems are like 
>impredicativities in formalisms. They are analogous.

  It is of course open to anybody to say that, broadly speaking,
anything is analogous to anything else. Nevertheless, I think it's a
good idea to avoid referring to technical subjects when the supposed
analogy is just a matter of inspiration or metaphor.  It all becomes
too much like reflections along the lines of "The Heisenberg
uncertainty that pervades social relations means that we cannot
simultaneously measure the quantum of intimacy and the momentum
of social distance".