Examples of Premise Based Implicative Truth Synthesis
3.1 Applied mathematics
Mathematics
introduces the number a-priori, without any proof – within
mathematics the number simply exists, it is given. The central
property of applied mathematics is the nature of specification of
that initial number entering the computation. It’s up to you in
many cases what that starting number will be.
Different
professions or industry disciplines give name to the applied
mathematics field. More preciously, the professionals who pick the
initial numbers, as inputs to mathematics, define the field of
applied mathematics. Sometimes processes within an academic or
industry field generate the starting numbers for mathematical
analysis.
For
example, for mathematics application in physics, the initial number
generating process is the measurement and the discovery of
quantitative relationships in nature; in finance, bankers choose an
interest rate or a trader specifies the stock price; in economics,
economists define initial numbers representing demand and supply or
the price of the goods; in psychology, the psychologist specify the
number of subjects in a statistical behavioural experiment.
In
the fields of applied mathematics, it's actually the inquiries
extraneous to mathematics that generate initial, entry point numbers,
the initial premises.
Within
the field of mathematics application (economics, finance, trading,
psychology) there are no new mathematical operations or new kind of
numbers - they all come from, and belong to the same, “only one”
mathematics.
The
fields to which mathematics is “applied” (economics, finance,
psychology…) are axiomatic systems because they have their own
axioms and inquiry methods and the common logic that supports them.
This is important observation for the application of Implicative
Truth Synthesis. Since mathematics is also an axiomatic system (where
the word axiom comes from) the other systems of its application have
postulating power to select the initial numbers for
mathematics, which are considered “given”, for further
calculations. A whole philosophy of reasoning and decision making
takes place, within the discipline extraneous to mathematics, before
this first number is chosen.
Once
you enter the mathematical world it really does not matter where the
initial number came from. Mathematics sees only that number and has
its own rules to process it.
Also,
by adding the word “quantitative” to the field of application, we
generate a new applied mathematics name. Therefore, we might have
quantitative psychology, quantitative sociology, quantitative
marketing, quantitative archaeology. “Quantitative” means that
there are non-mathematical relationships in the discipline that
generate, postulate numbers as starting points for mathematical
calculations. Mathematics, then, returns obtained mathematical
results back to the original discipline (psychology, archaeology,
etc.)
Since
we consider the first system, one which mathematics is “applied”
to (psychology, archaeology, trading…) to be axiomatic, and since
mathematics is also axiomatic, by introducing quantitative relations
between these two systems we cross axiomatic boundaries
between them.
For
example, let’s look at the stocks trading. Price is, of course, an
influential element in this activity. Certain rules exist that
precede the price specification, and these rules can be related, for
instance, to weather, political events, or certain consumers’
behaviour. These are, in many cases, non-mathematical relations and
laws. Hence, based on the conclusions coming from these domains, a
trader will state the price. For instance, “based on such and such
consumers’ statistics and current weather, the price will be
$21.50.” Once you have the price, that number enters mathematical
world and is subject to all those relations and rules that apply to
mathematics. Mathematics does not care if number 21.5 comes from
trading ($21.50), from physics (speed 21.5 m/s), or from weather
(21.5 degrees Celsius). Mathematics deals only with numbers! Many
kinds of non-mathematical relationships can generate these numbers,
and in the case of our trading example these non-mathematical
relationships refer to the weather and consumers’ behaviour.
When
we state the price of $21.5, we crossed axiomatic boundary
between our trading reasoning (weather, consumer’s behaviour,
political atmosphere) and mathematical world, by postulating the
price of $21.5, thus giving to the mathematical world number 21.5 to
work with. Therefore, our trading axiomatic system has a
postulating power – it can postulate a starting number for
mathematics so that mathematics can process that number further. We
synthesized new truth via implication which states “based on
consumers’ behaviour and the weather conditions the price will be
$21.5 and it implies that number 21.5 will be our entry point
(postulated!) to the further mathematical computations”. This is
the example of Premise Based Implicative Truth Synthesis.
Now,
a few notes about how to approach mathematics as a discipline – in
school or in your projects. To tackle apparent abstraction and
complexity of mathematics it is prudent to consider the following:
everything in mathematics is about sets and operations on them. Any
mathematical formula, branch of mathematics, or mathematical
operation can be traced and explained in terms of sets. The trouble
to understand mathematics is in the fact that mathematicians go to
the great length in arbitrary naming sets and the sequences of
operations on sets. Calculus, probability, measure theory, random
numbers are just labelling names for sets and the sequences of
operations on them. You don't need to use names given by
mathematicians to advance your knowledge in mathematics. Think in
terms of sets and use any labels that work for you knowing that in
the background it is all about the sets and operations on them. And
moreover, you don't even need to use language to think about
mathematics – think in terms of sets, and use language to try to
convey your results to others.
We
often hear that some results are obtained by using mathematical
logic. But the concept ”mathematical logic” is misleading. It
suggests that there are many kinds of logic, one of which is
mathematical. However, it is not true. There is only one logic for
which we can say it is applied to different disciplines. Logic is not
more precise if it is used in mathematics than when it is used in a
courtroom or during scientific research in chemistry. Logic is about
examining truth values of the statements about world around us. Logic
deals with truth values and manipulates truth values in any
discipline or discourse of thinking.
Any
discipline, being it mathematics, physics, jurisprudence, chemistry,
architecture deals with truths within that discipline. These truths
are related to concepts characteristic to the particular discipline.
We use universal logic to discover truths within any discipline –
for mathematics we use logic to discover truths about numbers.
Mathematics appears to be more complex and alienated from our ways of
thinking because mathematicians arbitrary name their steps in
discovering the truth and the truth statements. The names can be
quite unexpected and exotic, yet they refer only to numbers, truth
about numbers, and operations on numbers. Mathematics appear to be
more precise than other sciences. Hence, in mathematics we have
theorems, lemmas, proofs, definitions. But, they all relate to the
efforts to discover truths about numbers. I am sure there are
theorems and lemmas in chemistry and architecture, but they may not
be called the same name.
3.2
Human behaviour
Perhaps
the best example of Premise Based Implicative Truth Synthesis is the
human behaviour.
For
a mind’s given input any course of action (within the physics laws)
is possible. Which action will be taken depends on the person's
internal analysis of the given information, the person’s emotions,
feelings, impressions, perceptions, and rational reasoning.
Implicative Truth Synthesis is the main reason a person can initiate
any action based on any kind of reasons. Hence, it is of utmost
importance how we, humans, infere information that will motivate,
initiate their actions. There is no causative link, in the sense of
physics laws, between reasoning, decision making and which action to
take. We have free will. We can take any action for any reason
whatsoever, therefore we directly form an implication from given
information and actions that we take based on that information.
Reason A implies that we will choose to take action B. That’s where
Implicative Truth Synthesis comes into play.
An
information can motivates us to do a certain thing. But, we don’t
need to do it although we can. A premise is the information we have.
This information belongs to the axiomatic system A consisting of all
relevant information available to us. Second system, the system B, is
the system consisting of all possible actions we can take. These
actions may not be based on the information we have. But, if we take
information we have into account, and based on it we take an action
(selected from all the actions we can take) then we crossed
axiomatic boundaries between the systems A and B, and synthesized
a new truth: given information from A implied that we chose to take
action from B. This exactly illustrates the Premise Based Implicative
Truth Synthesis.
There
may not be more inviting and challenging goals as to
structure information in such a fashion as to influence decision
making process of humans, as the members of the society, in a desired
way. Psychology, politics, economics, marketing, are all great
examples! And Implicative Truth Synthesis is in the center of it.
3.3
Physics, engineering, and mathematics
As
I mentioned, the trick is that mathematics has its own rules, and is
an axiomatic field. The only entrance to mathematical world is by
choosing starting numbers, postulating (without proof) initial
numbers, initial conditions, and/or choosing a set of initial
mathematical operations. Given these inputs you can obtain results in
mathematics.
I
will quickly repeat what I wrote about physics and mathematics. The
relations in physics, say motion, momentum, energy, are quantifiable.
This, in other words, means, they can generate numbers, supply
numbers that are initial conditions for mathematics. That's the link.
Only through a postulate combined with implication, two different
axiomatic systems can be functionally linked. So, in physics,
non-mathematical events postulate numbers as a-priori inputs (no
question asked!) to the mathematical system. Then, inner processes
within mathematics, logic playing the major role, accept this
spectrum of initial values and do the job on them. After the
computation is finished, mathematics returns results to the world of
physics.
The
significance of the concept of a premise or a postulate which
is the part of the method name, Premise Based Implicative Truth
Synthesis, can be further illustrated.
Natural
sciences are closely related to the physics and laws of motion.
Relations between force, mass, energy, velocity are described the
best with partial differential equations (PDEs). Methods for solving
these PDEs are well developed and documented. The solutions can have
either closed form (analytical solution) or they are numerical
solutions. But, the question is, if the methods of solutions are
already well defined, what is then left to discover? The answer is
related to something that most undergrad and some grad courses
mention but miss to emphasise – the initial and boundary conditions
for PDEs.
Usually,
when solving a PDE, you have a domain of interest for which you have
a governing Partial Differential Equation and boundary of that
domain. It is this boundary (and/or initial system state in time,
called initial condition) that needs to be specified, postulated. It
will be given, a-priori, information to solve a PDE. There is no
ready-to-use formula to postulate these boundary and initial
conditions. It is up to the creative capabilities of the person
defining the problem to postulate these conditions. This
specification or discovery can be a trial and error process or a
follow up on some previous results from related experience, or even
using intuition. Even then, there is no guarantee that the solution
of PDE, with specified boundary and initial conditions, can be found;
it may also take an unspecified amount of time to find it, and, if
found, there is no guarantee that the solution will be the one you
are looking for!
But,
what is important here is that the boundary and initial conditions
are the gates for the creativity, the originality; it is a fertile
land for genius of the person involved in the problem solution to
shine. Postulating these initial conditions explains the word
“Premise” in the Premise Based Implicative Truth Synthesis.
For
instance, the Wright Brothers, when designing the first airplane,
were looking for the winning airfoil (wing cross-section) shape. The
experimental setup of their wind tunnel and measurement devices
established the governing aerodynamics PDE. Their research focus was
the winning shape of the wing and its cross-section, airfoil. The
airfoil is the boundary condition the Wright Brothers were looking
for! After performing a number of experiments, with different wing
shapes and cross-sections, they came up with the solution and made
their first successful controlled flight. The rest is history. Note
that, during their discovery process, not all airfoils (boundary
conditions) gave satisfactory results. The Wright Brothers had to
come up with numerous airfoils to find the right one in order to get
the plane up in the air. Their reasoning was one axiomatic system,
say system A. The flying wing was another system, B. By postulating
correct wing shape and airfoil, the Wright Brothers crossed
axiomatic boundaries between these systems, A and B. The correct
airfoil implied the aircraft will take off. The implication
synthesised the new truth, “the correct airfoils implies that
aircraft will fly”. This is Premise Based Implicative Truth
Synthesis.
Nikola
Tesla postulated design of his asynchronous motor, whose
construction, in general view, represents the initial and boundary
conditions for the relevant Maxwell’s partial differential
equations of electro-magnetism. There is no formula that would tell
how to set up these initial and boundary conditions, in this case,
how to design and build an asynchronous electric motor. In other
words, it is the creative talent of an inventor that will postulate
how to bend, wind metal wires, how to specify the size and shape of
magnetic core, and how to put them in a functional relation that
works.
Let’s
now look at the architecture.
Where
is the connection zone between the physics (engineering) and the art
in architecture?
It
is exactly in the concept of boundary and initial conditions, which
are the “Premise” part of Premise Based Implicative Truth
Synthesis. Consider a beam that holds, for instance, a side wall of a
building. The static force distribution on the beam is described by
governing PDE (Partial Differential Equation). If you put a wall on
the beam, the wall will exert force on the beam, and this force’s
distribution will depend on the wall’s shape. Given this shape,
which is a boundary condition for the beam’s PDE, we can calculate
the distribution of final force load on the beam, thus determining
whether the beam can withstand the wall’s weight. There is no given
formula that will tell us what the shape of the wall should be. It is
up to the creative talent of an architect, building the wall, to
determine its shape, driven by his or her aesthetics intelligence.
Physics can help her to calculate the force on the beam given certain
wall’s shape - the wall’s shape is the starting point for this
computation. But, physics cannot help her to determine the shape of
the wall. In the case of architecture, the shape of the wall is
chosen to satisfy human aesthetic criteria.
From
the Premise Based Implicative Truth Synthesis point of view, the
wall’s shape, as a boundary condition for PDE, is the premise that
enters world of physics from the world of art. The art is the first
axiomatic system, say system A. The physics of force distribution on
the beam is the second axiomatic system, system B. With the boundary
condition (the shape of the wall) we cross the axiomatic
boundaries between these two systems, postulating the initial
force distribution for the calculation, thus synthesizing the new
truth: the chosen wall’s shape implies the beam’s force
distribution calculation to determine whether the wall can stand it.
With the shape of wall we satisfy the aesthetics criteria and with
calculated force distribution we satisfy engineering requirements for
function and safety.
- Electronics and digital circuits
Implicative
Truth Synthesis plays an extensive role in the design of logical
gates. For given input voltage the specific connection and
configuration of active and passive electronic components generate
desired output voltage. Or, given the initial voltage as a premise,
it is implied, by our circuit design, that certain output voltage
will be obtained. Note that we can choose, by design, almost any
output voltage for any given input voltage (within the laws of
physics). This mimics how the human mind works – we can take any
action for any given reason. Hence, the wide presence of electronics
and electrical engineering in the world around us.
In
the design of an electronic logical circuit (logical gate), our
premise is input voltage. It is given, postulated information to the
circuit. The mechanism that selects this particular input voltage
(can originate from our reasoning or from another circuit) is the
first axiomatic system, say system A. The digital circuit itself is
the axiomatic system B. By stating the input voltage we crossed
axiomatic boundaries between these two systems – A and B. System A,
our reasoning has postulating power to pick a starting state of the
system B – digital circuit.
Next
step is the design of our logical circuit to produce specific output
voltage given the input voltage. We synthesized new truth via
implication – given input voltage implied certain output voltage.
We created this implication by our circuit design, hence we have all
of the components of the method – Premise is input voltage,
Implicative is how we linked input and output voltage, and that’s
the truth we just synthesized – Implicative Truth Synthesis.
3.5
Music
Consider
the acoustic guitar. The selected fret’s position, the string
length, will dictate the frequency (pitch) of the tone. There is a
number of different frequencies a performer can choose and generate.
When playing an instrument, a performer postulates a sequence of
tones. For a listener, they are the starting points, the points of
departure of the musical piece, and the beginning of the listening
experience. Music is a sequence of tonal premises - generated by
strings – a melody. Note how the guitar is decoupled from the act
of composition. Guitar strings can accept any kind of plucks, but
it’s up to a composer to create a work of art. From all possible
fret positions, tone sequences, and duration, a composer postulates
only the ones that satisfy his or her musical aesthetic criteria.
Composer has a postulating power in relation to the guitar
strings. During the process of composition, a composer defines
initial (allowable, possible) states of the vibrating strings, which
originate from the axioms of the guitar.
Guitar
is an axiomatic system. It is independent of all other systems in its
surroundings, like, of composer, performer, orchestra, audience. The
guitar axiomatic system can be defined, for instance, by the
guitar parts, the head stock, tuning keys, fretboard, body (resonant
chamber), but most importantly by its strings and all possible tones
that can be produced with them. A music piece is a set of notes which
are postulated. Consider one particular guitar. Performers can
change. Composers can change, also the audience can change. Yet, the
guitar remains the same, an autonomous axiomatic system.
With
each plucked string we cross axiomatic boundaries, from composer (or
performer) to the guitar. The sound from the guitar is crossing
axiomatic boundaries that envelopes guitar and its audience. By
plucking a string, a performer synthesised a new truth – new tone.
With each tone in the air, a new truth is synthesized – audience
just heard that tone.
Axiomatic
system of an audience member tells us that he or she can hear the
music. If there is no guitar, nothing happens. But, if there is a
guitar played, it will imply that the listener will enjoy the music.
This is Implicative Truth Synthesis.
Compare
this guitar axiomatic system discovery, its decoupling and later
connection via Implicative Truth Synthesis with the relationship
between racing car driver (one axiomatic system) and the car engine
(another axiomatic system), or decoupling mathematics from its field
of application. The same way mathematics is defined by and enclosed
within its axiomatic system, the same can be said about the guitar
and the car engine. It is this axioms discovery for a system that
admits further linking with other systems via Implicative Truth
synthesis.
Decoupling
composition from the guitar, along their axiomatic boundaries, allows
us to study the performance and guitar construction separately from
composition. Decoupling racing car driver from the car and its engine
allows us to study and focus separately on the driver’s training
and the engine’s performance design at the factory.
Hence,
with that said, the axiomatic system analysis can also define what
your profession could be: a composer, a performer, a mathematician, a
physician, a racing car driver, or a car engine designer. Or, you can
be more than one – you can cross disciplines. You can be a good
musician and skilful racing car driver. Or be a mathematician and a
solid guitar player. And all this is seen more clearly through
Premise Based Implicative Synthesis lenses.
3.5.1
From composing music to selling concert tickets
Tone
by tone, music can evoke pleasant feelings; each tone carefully
initiates response in our musical minds, creating musical experience
that we share with others.
We
can observe that our musical emotional, reactive response disappears
after music stops. However, music can change our mood, and this
change can last long after the music stops. We are all aware of this
when attending a concert.
This
whole positive experience is the reason why good music sells!
Captivating, pleasant, inspiring music implies that the orchestra or
the band will sell tickets. One truth (music is good) implies another
truth (we are going to buy tickets). Hence, the new truth is
synthesised: when the music is good we are buying the tickets. Good
music (system A) has a postulating power in relation to us
(system B) – it motivates us to buy tickets. This Implicative Truth
Synthesis is the core of profitable music industry. Note that,
because we have free will, we can take any action yet we decide to
buy tickets.
3.5.2
Mathematics and music
The
most prevalent, if not the only, connection between mathematics and
music is in the sequential selection of the duration and of the
frequency (pitch) of the tones, in order to form a melody. (We also
can quantify dynamics of a music piece, crescendo, forte, fortissimo,
etc. as well, but let’s stay only with tone’s pitch and duration,
for clarity.)
This
tone’s selection process corresponds to postulating sets and number
of elements in them in mathematics. Hence, no arithmetic, no
quantitative investigation of numbers flow from music to math; only a
sequence of numbers. It is because what matters in music is the
relationship between successive tones which we are capable to
perceive and how these relationships evoke certain feelings and
emotions, and not the numerical relations between tone’s pitches
and duration.
On
the other hand, feelings are not a priority in the mathematical
operations on sequentially selected sets. In mathematics, you don’t
get too much of a thrill from stating one number after another or one
set after another. Of course, you can investigate convergence or
divergence of a sequence of numbers – but, that’s the different
step from only stating the sequence, and in music we are interested
how long a tone will be and not in the convergence or divergence of
the series of tones’ duration.
There
is one additional, important association in this comparison. Musical
piece, in general, consists of a melody and a harmony. With melody
and harmony we are simultaneously generating and passing more than
one number to the mathematical world. How many numbers can we pass,
then, at the same time? Let’s see. In melody, we have the tone
duration and the pitch - that’s two numbers. In harmony we have a
number of different instruments and instruments groups. A modern
full-scale symphony orchestra consists of approximately one hundred
permanent musicians, most often distributed as follows: 16–18 1st
violins, 16 2nd violins, 12 violas, 12 cellos, 8 double basses, 4
flutes (one with piccolo as a specialty), 4 oboes (one with English
horn as a specialty), 4 clarinets (one with bass clarinet as a
specialty, another specializing in high clarinets), 4 bassoons (one
with double bassoon as a specialty.)1
This means that a composer and a conductor can keep in their heads
148 variables - 18(1st
violins) x 2(pitch and duration) + 16(2nd
violins) x 2(pitch and duration) + 12(violas) x 2(pitch and duration)
+ 12 (cellos) x 2((pitch and duration) + 8(double basses) x 2(pitch
and duration) and so on, which equals to around 74 pairs of different
pitches and durations adding up to 148. This is equivalent to the
function of 148 variables in mathematics! And instruments are
distributed into four different sets - woodwinds,
brass, percussion, and strings type. This relates to the mathematical
definition of a distribution!
Only
the functions of one variable are almost exclusively thought in high
schools and some college mathematics courses. Functions of two or
more variables are usually introduced in calculus or pre-calculus
courses. While musicians may not be so good in arithmetic (they don’t
need to, it might be as well boring too!) they are quite capable
abstract mathematicians, even if they don’t know that – they can
deal with functions of 148 variables distributed in four sets!
Impressive indeed!
Of
course, postulating such a big number of variables when, say,
composing a symphony, put emphasis on the premise generation. These
tones, for various groups of instruments, are actual premises and as
such they contribute to the premise part of the Premise Based
Implicative Truth Synthesis method.
Back
to the sets and music. It is often in your advantage to manipulate
abstract concepts quickly. While you will get speed over time, with
training, the very process of remembering abstract concepts can be a
difficult task – you may feel that you are missing their context
and therefore cannot just remember and recall any arbitrary idea or
object that floats in your mind. The concepts need to be linked to
something!
Music
can help here, especially getting a sense about sets – and sets are
in the center of all the explanations in math. As you listen to the
music, you can, at your own pace, imagine the sets in space that
contain dots equal in number to the duration or the pitch of the tone
you are just listening. With time you will find this quite amusing –
while enjoying the music you can see in your mind circles
representing sets with dots within them. You may even be able to move
them around in an imaginary space, like real objects, in your mind.
When you get accustom to the fact that you can manipulate such
abstract concepts as sets, embedded in music context, you will feel
more confident to manipulate numbers in the similar way, and hence
mathematical functions which are, in general, just pairs of numbers –
pairs of sets. Remember, everything in mathematics is a set and the
operations on them. Enjoy your new math world!
3.6
Software development and computer programming
Here,
you specify the “sea of initial conditions” consisting of true
and false values to be represented by the bits which are passed to
CPU for logical processing in order to get the targeted output
result. These bits are called business requirements. Actual software
development starts with this “sea of premises”. Business analysts
interview subject matter experts and collect information that will
be, through the business requirements document, input to the design
document for software developers. Business requirements have
postulating power – they postulate initial conditions and
initial relationships for software developers, who, in turn, assign
to bits the initial true and false values based on these requirements
or premises.
Business
requirements are one axiomatic system. Computer is another. By
mapping the business requirement to the bits’ state, in the
computer, we cross their axiomatic boundaries by the implication:
given this business requirement it implies that the certain bit value
will be true (or false). Once a computer has these initial bits’
values, it processes them logically using digital circuits
(consisting mostly of logic gates) built around CPU and memory. When
finished, the results are, again, computer bits representing values
true or false. As the next step, these truth values are mapped back
to the business domain by linking them to the concepts who’s truth
value they represent (for example, it is true that temperature is 273
degrees Fahrenheit, it is true that the trading price is $10.00, it
is false that the auction will take place on June 12th).
Why
are computers so popular and powerful and are successfully used in so
many fields?
It
is because, once a computer has initial bit states (true or false) it
does not care where they came from - computer will do universal
logical processing on them for any field.
Many
concepts in the world around us can be represented by true or false
statements.
Where
Premise Based Implicative Truth Synthesis plays role here? Business
domain rules are linked to computer systems via Implicative Truth
Synthesis, where, at the start, bits' truth values are postulated by
the business domain analysts. At the end of CPU processing, the truth
values of bits are mapped back via Implicative Truth Synthesis, to
the truth values of the domain of application.
To
succeed as a software developer you have to be aware that you have to
start with the hundreds of premises represented by truth values of
bits (Windows OS can help you input these postulated bits through
various windows – text boxes, check-boxes, drop-down boxes…) and,
after computer logical processing, you map the obtained truth values
of bits, or numbers, to the domain of application. It is an
imperative to recognize the central role, importance of premises,
design of premises, and premises architecture when designing a
software system. Software architecture is architecture of premises
which comes from business requirements (finance, medicine,
engineering…)
We
still can ask why computers can be applied to so many diverse fields
given that the computers deal only with the binary 0s and 1s? It’s
because when you choose the domain where you can claim that something
is true or false these true or false values are represented by 0s
(false) and 1s (true) within a computer. The domain you chose can be
any domain: finance, engineering, medicine, genetics…, and in each
of these domains you can form statements that can be true or false.
Let’s
analyze the Windows programming (the analysis can be applied not only
to the Windows operating system, but also to the Android and the
Mac’s iOS or even UNIX). In Windows programming paradigm everything
is a window – a functional rectangle. The main purpose of the
windows here is to accept input values, premises, and display the end
results – the output values. In general, when we look at the
windows (functional rectangles) on our computer screen, we are not
really concerned with their aesthetic appeal – what matters the
most is where in the window we can input our premises (called input
data) and, subsequently, in which window, and where on that window,
the results will be displayed.
Business
requirements create premises for our windows! To be a successful
Windows programmer you focus to gain massive but structured knowledge
how the windows will be displayed on the screen and how they will be
manipulated by your code. Windows software libraries can help you
with this. Business requirements in general are not of your concern.
Why? Because business requirements document will give you your
starting points to program windows. That’s all you need. In the
same way, business analysts are not interested how you will program
the windows! They are focusing on their business data and later on
the results from your program.
There
are two axiomatic systems here. First, say system A, is the world of
business requirements. Business analysts have their own axioms,
methods, and philosophy to analyze the expert domain to which they
seek computer application; often subject matter experts are
interviewed to obtain the most accurate business information: a
medical doctor or a researcher in medical software application,
trader in financial application, or design engineer in electrical
engineering application.
The
second axiomatic system is our Windows programming environment, say
system B. You, as a software developer, or a software architect, will
accept the business requirements through the windows and logically
process them giving instructions to CPU via your software code. In
the process of programming you can create some errors or business
requirements may be logically wrong. Debugging that follows is one
example of finding the wrong premises.
Note
how these two axiomatic systems can exist without knowing about each
other. Business requirements (system A) are created without knowing
which software will be used for computation and application. The
software development environment is built around Windows libraries
and essentially it does not care from which business domain the
premises will come. By giving the business requirement document to a
software developer, or to a software architect, we crossed axiomatic
boundaries between these two systems, A and B. With this crossing we
synthesised new truth: given this business requirement from system A
it will imply that certain kind of window will be created in system
B. Only through this implicative link the two systems can get
functionally connected. And this is the Premise Based Implicative
Truth Synthesis.
3.7
Famous postulates (premises)
Some
of the famous postulates, premises, also called inventions within the
corresponding fields, are:
- The Schrodinger’s equation
- The Nikola Tesla’s asynchronous electric motor
- The Wright Brothers’ wing airfoil
Note
how it was sufficient to only present a postulate, as a patent for
instance, without need to show the proof how the invention has been
created. That’s the essential property of a postulate or a premise.
It opens up the usage of it in other systems moving forward because
it is a starting point that needs no proof within the system it is
used in.
Premise
Based Implicative Truth Synthesis is the core component of any
cross-disciplinary project because of its capability to correctly and
efficiently connect inputs and outputs of these fields. The expertise
level of a team member in these projects is directly proportional to
the number and quality of premises she or he possesses and his or her
ability to discover and form implications between different systems
thus synthesizing new truths within an interdisciplinary project.
You
will see that, for success, you will need to have a massive but well
structured knowledge in the domain of interest, be it the knowledge
of the products you sell, engineering or scientific knowledge, or,
for instance, the cooking skills and recipes. But, this massive
knowledge requirement does not mean you learn everything without any
selection. On the contrary, you will select what matters, what is
important, and the volume of this kind of knowledge will be massive.
During this process, let’s say you are acquiring knowledge from two
thick books, or from a number of research papers, you read
sequentially, but the important facts and relations between them you
distribute in 3D planes, so you can easier form new relationships,
from other books or papers, or experiences. Using Implicative Truth
Synthesis to analyze the domain of interest by creating axiomatic
boundaries will make your process of gaining knowledge way easier.
For instance, for my current projects in engineering and software
development I did original research in acoustics and thanks to
Implicative Truth Synthesis I just skimmed through tens of scientific
papers to extract what is important for my project, in which
acoustics meets psychology, and this in turn is linked to sound
engineering. Contrast that with approach to spend days reading one
thick book trying to extract relevant information.
The
individual development of disciplines which takes part in a
cross-disciplinary project, is possible exactly because they function
on the premise-axiomatic principles. Premises define the starting
points of inquiry within the field, while axiomatic structure allows
solid logical analysis. Cross-disciplinary projects like chemistry
and mathematics, social networks and computer science, artificial
intelligence, are also possible because the results in one discipline
can specify starting premises in another, and within that new
discipline the attained results can specify premises to yet another
domain of knowledge. Note how premises can be specified in two ways -
by discipline itself, and also as an implication from the result in
another discipline. This premise specification is a true statement –
result from one discipline implies a premise, postulate in another –
the Premise Based Implicative Truth Synthesis.
As
a result of the method application, you will, gradually, be able to
recognize abstractions underpinning the systems and concepts you are
going to conquer. You will see the relationships between these
underlying structures, and you will become accustomed to think in
terms of the relationships between these abstractions, gaining
benefits of information inferred in this way, the information that
can change the real system you are focusing on.
When
you start associating different ideas, disciplines, skills, or
knowledge domains with Implicative Truth Synthesis, you will awaken
many different kind of intelligence you have – emotional, artistic,
quantitative, musical, spiritual, physical, analytical…
In
a number of instances you will stop thinking using ordinary language:
instead, you will think in the terms of relationships, possibly
existing on several levels, that make up your systems. Language is a
way to communicate ideas and their relationships which are often
created without the use of language. You will not need to explain
your findings and discovered relationships using ordinary language -
they will be there, clear and tangible in their own way of existence.
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