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Thread 0021: How do the TSK books differ from each other?
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LOK, pp. x-xi: it has always been clear that numerous readers found the vision [expressed in Time, Space, and Knowledge] difficult to understand and to explore. For some, the complex and tightly structured presentation proved frustrating, while for others initial insights gave way over time to confusion and discouragement.
We are thus deeply pleased to be able to present a work that makes the fundamental TSK vision accessible in new ways. Though challenging in its own right, Love of Knowledge is more readily understandable to a mind attuned to conventional ways of knowing. . . .
Love of Knowledge serves as an introduction to the TSK vision, while also laying the groundwork for further explorations. It stands as an independent analysis of conventional knowledge and a thoughtful assessment of the potential for new ways of knowing. . . .
p. xiii: I saw a need to clarify and extend the TSK vision in new directions, so that those familiar with the vision could deepen their understanding, and those who had found the initial presentation difficult could be encouraged to continue their efforts.
p. xiv: Due to the press of other projects, it was not until 1984 that I was able to begin dictating the first notes for a new book. . . . The material being explored was difficult, and several successive drafts of a working manuscript were prepared. Eventually the more introductory and general sections were collected together for this book; the remaining portions, which deal systematically with elements of the vision presented only in evocative form in TSK, were left for later publication
pp. xv-xvi: Love of Knowledge proceeds by returning to a point 'before the beginning' of Time, Space, and Knowledge--tracing out links between space, time, and knowledge and our ordinary understanding. The presentation inquires primarily into the structures of conventional, 'first-level' thought. Only when these structures have been identified and analyzed does the focus shift to a 'higher' level of knowledge.
p. xxvii: The inquiry here investigates the fundamental process by which human beings turn perceptions into judgments, judgments into patterns, and patterns into fixed positions.
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