Python for philosophers
Mark Janssen
dreamingforward at gmail.com
Tue May 14 14:56:10 EDT 2013
On Sat, May 11, 2013 at 1:03 PM, Citizen Kant <citizenkant at gmail.com> wrote:
>I'm making my way to Python (and
> OOP in general) from a philosophical perspective or point of view and try to
> set the more global definition of Python's core as an "entity". In order to
> do that, and following Wittgenstein's indication about that the true meaning
> of words doesn't reside on dictionaries but in the use that we make of them,
> the starting question I make to myself about Python is: which is the single
> and most basic use of Python as the entity it is?
It is a way to form order from ideas, an *experimental* philosophy.
One can apply and implement a philosophy, taking it out of the realm
of ideas and simulate them in the machine.
> I mean, beside
> programming, what's the single and most basic result one can expect from
> "interacting" with it directly (interactive mode)?
A game of interactions.
> I roughly came to the
> idea that Python could be considered as an economic mirror for data, one
> that mainly mirrors the data the programmer types on its black surface,
That is called the "editor window" in our world that is displayed on
an electronic device called a computer display, but in Samael's world
it is a mirror into our world. He misused it to rape the crown of the
Hebrew story (found in the Bible).
> So, would it be legal (true) to define Python's core as an entity that
> mirrors whatever data one presents to it (or feed it with) showing back the
> most shortened expression of that data?
No, that is me, Marcos.
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MarkJ
Tacoma, Washington
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