Prescission, transcendental methods, active inference

Much to dig into for those interested to continue to learn

Let us be reminded for a moment of Transcendental Truth
https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/19111996/

> *although the ultimate scientific authority of a transcendental value of
> truth was a view held almost universally by the greatest scientists
> throughout recorded history, modern science has all-but banished references
> to truth from professional scientific discourse *
>

Despite being the working model for intelligence, humans can choose
selectively to not apply it . Why do intelligent humans sometimes behave
unintelligently? * just take a look at history and the current state of
world affairs for a plethora of examples.
Because of ego, pride and ignorance can dim this otherwise innate
intellectual quality

I am reading about prescission - further exploring the pointer provided by
Mike in the earlier mail, so sharing it here (yes, middle of the night,
sore eyes)

An introductory article
http://www.commens.org/encyclopedia/article/gava-gabriele-prescissi

>
> *But precision is not thus reciprocal; but on the contrary it is
> frequently the case that though A cannot be prescinded from B, B can be
> prescinded from A” *
>

*note by P*DM:  this is seen in some type of relations, where the child
cannot possibly exist without a parent.  not viceversa

More in detail
https://philpapers.org/rec/GAVPPA
Peirce’s ‘Prescision’ as a Transcendental Method
<https://philpapers.org/go.pl?id=GAVPPA&proxyId=&u=https%3A%2F%2Fdx.doi.org%2F10.1080%2F09672559.2011.561614>
Gabriele Gava <https://philpapers.org/s/Gabriele%20Gava>

> prescision is similar to some abstracting procedure that Immanuel Kant
> used in his Critique of Pure Reason.


The transcendental method is foundational to sciences
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S0039368112000817


Free energy and active inference
The abstract only is open for this paper, but its enough to get the gist
Friston K, Kilner J, Harrison L (2006) A free energy principle for the
brain. J Physiol Paris 100(1–3):70–87.
https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jphysparis.2006.10.001

more on the topic
https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s10539-022-09864-z
*Active inference*, whose most famous tenet is the *free energy principle*,
purports to unify explanations in biology and cognitive science under a
single class of mathematical models.

(May or may not agree)