[Buddha-l] I do not deny my non-self

[Erik Hoogcarspel]

Malcolm Dean schreef:

> The non-denial of the non-self
> http://www.economist.com/science/displayStory.cfm?story_id=7854216
> The Economist, Aug 31st 2006
> How philosophy can help create secure databases
>
> IN THE 1940s a philosopher called Carl Hempel showed that by
> manipulating the logical statement "all ravens are black", you could
> derive the equivalent "all non-black objects are non-ravens". Such
> topsy-turvy transformations might seem reason enough to keep
> philosophers locked up safely on university campuses, where they
> cannot do too much damage. 

These days logic has moved from philosophy to mathematics, certainly 
these kind of 'calculations'. If you take the principle in an 
epistemological context you get the old buddhist theoreme of 'apoha' or 
the Sartrean 'aneantir'. It's a lot like hte way a baby learns it's 
mother tongue: just forget all the other sounds and vowels.

> However, a number of computer scientists,
> led by Fernando Esponda of Yale University, are taking Hempel's notion
> as the germ of an eminently practical scheme. They are applying such
> negative representations to the problem of protecting sensitive data.
> The idea is to create a negative database. Instead of containing the
> information of interest, such a database would contain everything
> except that information.

/ /
You mean like the book of McEvilley? :-)


Erik


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