[CG] Theory and Therapy of Representations

Theory and Therapy of Representations • 1 • https://inquiryintoinquiry.com/2025/02/21/theory-and-therapy-of-representat… ❝Again, in a ship, if a man were at liberty to do what he chose, but were devoid of mind and excellence in navigation (αρετης κυβερνητικης), do you perceive what must happen to him and his fellow sailors?❞ ─ Plato • Alcibiades 135 A Statistics were originally the data a ship of state needed for stationkeeping and staying on course. The Founders of the United States, like the Cybernauts of the Enlightenment they were, engineered a ship of state with checks and balances and error‑controlled feedbacks for the sake of representing both reality and the will of the people. In that connection Max Weber saw how a state's accounting systems are intended as representations of realities its crew and passengers must observe or perish. The question for our time is — • What are the forces distorting our representations of what's observed, what's expected, and what's intended? Repercussions ─ The Place Where Three Wars Meet • https://inquiryintoinquiry.com/2012/06/21/the-place-where-three-wars-meet/ Regards, Jon cc: https://mathstodon.xyz/@Inquiry/114042549214137021 cc: https://www.researchgate.net/post/Theory_and_Therapy_of_Representations