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Ouch❢
• https://inquiryintoinquiry.com/2025/02/27/ouch%e2%9d%a2-a/

❝A child hears it said that the stove is hot. But it is not, he says; and, indeed, that central body is not touching it, and only what that touches is hot or cold. But he touches it, and finds the testimony confirmed in a striking way. Thus, he becomes aware of ignorance, and it is necessary to suppose a self in which this ignorance can inhere. …

❝In short, error appears, and it can be explained only by supposing a self which is fallible.

❝Ignorance and error are all that distinguish our private selves from the absolute ego of pure apperception.❞

🙞 C.S. Peirce • “Questions Concerning Certain Faculties Claimed For Man”
• https://www.cspeirce.com/menu/library/bycsp/question/qu-frame.htm

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Survey of Cybernetics
• https://inquiryintoinquiry.com/2024/01/25/survey-of-cybernetics-4/