I love the idea of a Pattern Language for Rationality!! Great project. One thing I noticed from your post is you didn’t mention Christopher Alexander’s later books “The Nature of Order” (published in the early 2000s). In many ways I think those books have some ideas that are even more germane to this project—in particular, Alexander lays out this concept of the “15 Fundamental Properties” which in a way are building blocks for his Patterns. I can imagine using some of the similar ideas for “X# of Fundamental Rationality Properties” that could build up to larger patterns for example...
In case it’s of interest, I wrote about Book 1′s 15 Properties of Nature of Order, here and Book 2 here.
Thanks! I haven’t gotten to that one yet, but I’ll move it to next on my list. [I also think his earlier book, Notes on the Synthesis of Form, is probably relevant, but unclear how much of it is already present in later books, which have had more time to ‘cook’.]
I love the idea of a Pattern Language for Rationality!! Great project. One thing I noticed from your post is you didn’t mention Christopher Alexander’s later books “The Nature of Order” (published in the early 2000s). In many ways I think those books have some ideas that are even more germane to this project—in particular, Alexander lays out this concept of the “15 Fundamental Properties” which in a way are building blocks for his Patterns. I can imagine using some of the similar ideas for “X# of Fundamental Rationality Properties” that could build up to larger patterns for example...
In case it’s of interest, I wrote about Book 1′s 15 Properties of Nature of Order, here and Book 2 here.
Thanks! I haven’t gotten to that one yet, but I’ll move it to next on my list. [I also think his earlier book, Notes on the Synthesis of Form, is probably relevant, but unclear how much of it is already present in later books, which have had more time to ‘cook’.]