SAE · The Second Enlightenment · Paper 3: Reading Structure, Not Minds / SAE 二次启蒙论 第三篇: 看结构,不读心

SAE · The Second Enlightenment · Paper 3. This record holds the Chinese final text (v1.0) and the English edition (v1.0). The English edition is an independent rewrite, not a translation. It sets out propositions W15–W21, numbered continuously across the series. Abstract (English) Paper 1 said that "in the end, it is all about interest" makes mind-reading into an assumption about everyone. This paper sets out another way of looking: reading structure, not minds. Mind-reading goes beyond the facts that can be checked, to say on someone's behalf what he is doing it for in his heart; reading structure looks only at what was done and what was said aloud, how many slots a place leaves for reasons, whether a "no" can land, and on whom the cost falls. What can be said from outside is gathered into an outer table; an inner table is only for the person himself to look back with. Seen from outside, the results are of three kinds: can be confirmed, only a clue, cannot yet be judged; confirmation concerns positions, not judgments about people. To state what is only a clue as confirmed, and to use it to decide what drives a person or what he avows, is mind-reading. These criteria apply to this series itself as well. 摘要(中文) 第一篇说,“说到底都是为了利益”是把读心做成了对所有人的假定。这一篇写另一种看法:看结构,不读心。读心,是越过能核对的事实,替别人说出他心里为了什么;看结构,只看做了什么、说出口的是什么,一处地方给理由留了几格,一句“不”落不落得下,代价落在谁身上。从外面能说的归成一张外表,内表只供本人回看。从外面看,结果分三种:能确认,只是线索,尚不能判;能确认的只给位置,不给人。把只是线索说成能确认,拿它判定一个人心里的驱动或认领,就是读心。这些判据也用在这个系列自己身上。 Related identifiers Relation Identifier Resource References 10.5281/zenodo.21611154 On the Colonization of Value (SAE Value Theory, Paper 3) References 10.5281/zenodo.22970758 Anti-Colonization (SAE Action Theory, Paper 2) References 10.5281/zenodo.22970787 One's Own Share of Strength, and Guarding (SAE Action Theory, Paper 9) References 10.5281/zenodo.23545047 What a Relation Is, and What It Is Not (SAE Relation Theory, Paper 1) These 4 identifiers are the 4 DOIs in the reference lists of the two texts (works of this system); the two lists carry the same set. This series The text cites these papers of this series by number (Prequel, Papers 1 to 7), not in the reference lists. Add them as References too if the record should link to them. Relation Identifier Resource References 10.5281/zenodo.24030393 What the Second Enlightenment Is Not (SAE The Second Enlightenment, Prequel) References 10.5281/zenodo.24030395 Is It Worth It? (SAE The Second Enlightenment, Paper 1) References 10.5281/zenodo.24030397 For Oneself (SAE The Second Enlightenment, Paper 2) References 10.5281/zenodo.24030409 One's Good, Written in Advance (SAE The Second Enlightenment, Paper 4) References 10.5281/zenodo.24030411 Calling It Worth It (SAE The Second Enlightenment, Paper 5) References 10.5281/zenodo.24030413 No Longer Asking for Proof of Worth First (SAE The Second Enlightenment, Paper 6)

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SAE · The Second Enlightenment · Paper 3: Reading Structure, Not Minds / SAE 二次启蒙论 第三篇: 看结构,不读心

Han Qin
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SAE · The Second Enlightenment · Paper 3: Reading Structure, Not Minds / SAE 二次启蒙论 第三篇: 看结构,不读心

Han Qin
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SAE · The Second Enlightenment · Paper 3. This record holds the Chinese final text (v1.0) and the English edition (v1.0). The English edition is an independent rewrite, not a translation. It sets out propositions W15–W21, numbered continuously across the series. Abstract (English) Paper 1 said that "in the end, it is all about interest" makes mind-reading into an assumption about everyone. This paper sets out another way of looking: reading structure, not minds. Mind-reading goes beyond the facts that can be checked, to say on someone's behalf what he is doing it for in his heart; reading structure looks only at what was done and what was said aloud, how many slots a place leaves for reasons, whether a "no" can land, and on whom the cost falls. What can be said from outside is gathered into an outer table; an inner table is only for the person himself to look back with. Seen from outside, the results are of three kinds: can be confirmed, only a clue, cannot yet be judged; confirmation concerns positions, not judgments about people. To state what is only a clue as confirmed, and to use it to decide what drives a person or what he avows, is mind-reading. These criteria apply to this series itself as well. 摘要(中文) 第一篇说,“说到底都是为了利益”是把读心做成了对所有人的假定。这一篇写另一种看法:看结构,不读心。读心,是越过能核对的事实,替别人说出他心里为了什么;看结构,只看做了什么、说出口的是什么,一处地方给理由留了几格,一句“不”落不落得下,代价落在谁身上。从外面能说的归成一张外表,内表只供本人回看。从外面看,结果分三种:能确认,只是线索,尚不能判;能确认的只给位置,不给人。把只是线索说成能确认,拿它判定一个人心里的驱动或认领,就是读心。这些判据也用在这个系列自己身上。 Related identifiers Relation Identifier Resource References 10.5281/zenodo.21611154 On the Colonization of Value (SAE Value Theory, Paper 3) References 10.5281/zenodo.22970758 Anti-Colonization (SAE Action Theory, Paper 2) References 10.5281/zenodo.22970787 One's Own Share of Strength, and Guarding (SAE Action Theory, Paper 9) References 10.5281/zenodo.23545047 What a Relation Is, and What It Is Not (SAE Relation Theory, Paper 1) These 4 identifiers are the 4 DOIs in the reference lists of the two texts (works of this system); the two lists carry the same set. This series The text cites these papers of this series by number (Prequel, Papers 1 to 7), not in the reference lists. Add them as References too if the record should link to them. Relation Identifier Resource References 10.5281/zenodo.24030393 What the Second Enlightenment Is Not (SAE The Second Enlightenment, Prequel) References 10.5281/zenodo.24030395 Is It Worth It? (SAE The Second Enlightenment, Paper 1) References 10.5281/zenodo.24030397 For Oneself (SAE The Second Enlightenment, Paper 2) References 10.5281/zenodo.24030409 One's Good, Written in Advance (SAE The Second Enlightenment, Paper 4) References 10.5281/zenodo.24030411 Calling It Worth It (SAE The Second Enlightenment, Paper 5) References 10.5281/zenodo.24030413 No Longer Asking for Proof of Worth First (SAE The Second Enlightenment, Paper 6)

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