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Re: Announcement: mgrabmue-pers-scheme-0.0.1
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Keith Wright |
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Re: Announcement: mgrabmue-pers-scheme-0.0.1 |
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Tue, 30 Jan 2001 00:33:47 -0500 |
> From: thi <address@hidden>
>
> ... some old philosophy says something about the cultivation of the
> state (of the art?) begins w/ the cultivation of the [recurse here]
> begins w/ the cultivation of the individual, so i like to think that
> by sharing not only bits of code, but the packaging of such bits,
> refinement can occur, possibly to the point of automation.
That sounds like:
> The ancients...wishing to order well their states, first
> regulated their families. Wishing to regulate their families,
> they first cultivated their persons. Wishing to cultivate their
> persons, they first rectified their hearts. Wishing to rectify
> their hearts, they first sought to be sincere in their thoughts.
> Wishing to be sincere in their thoughts, they first extended to
> the utmost their knowledge. Such extension of knowledge lay in
> the investigation of things.
>
> -- Confucius "The Great Learning" (Da Xue) Section 4
>
Confucius has several such "recursive" passages, my favorite
is in the Analects Book XIII (Zi Lu), chapter III:
> The first thing necessary is to rectify names.
> If names be not correct, language is not in accord with
> the truth...(recurse)...the people do not know how to move.
-- Keith