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FURTHER_REFLEXION

Bardini declares allegiance with
a quote in the preface, as a 
"reflexivist" and a "postmodern".

It seemed to me that Bardini repeatedly
showed that he doesn't really know what
reflexive means, e.g.  Englebart's     
"bootstrapping" concept is connected to
defining the developer as the user, and
Bardini calls this the "reflexive"     
definition.  Okay now there is a kind        And outside of mathematical
of circularity here, and you can tell        logic (and perhaps even    
what Bardini means, myself I would say       inside of it), reflexive   
that a real reflexive definition would       definitions are pretty     
be "the user is the user".                   inane and useless.         
                                                   
    Eh, but I see the dictionary                 (A is A, Ayn is Ayn, 
    definition is "having an                     A thing is itself, 
    object that is identical with                this statement says 
    the subject".  So perhaps I'm                what it says, and not     
    at fault for assuming that                   what it doesn't say.  
    this jargon is solely part of                Heavy, man.) 
    mathematics.                     


       Oops.  Nevermind. 
                              


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