(16) Revealing the secret
story and the agony
of Multiple Forms
;-)
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Well,
when I realised all this (and more) as a "humble undergrad", more
than fifteen years ago, I felt -initially- very
excited.
Soon afterwards, however, my prevailing emotion about this, at that
time,
was d r
e a d. - Why (you may ask) ?
Because, like many others in similar rare moments, I could not
stand
the burden (or such mind-blowing evidence) that... our entrusted
teachers and
educators at University, together with facts taught in University
textbooks were
"wrong", and "I was right" (like a madman, alone in the
wilderness).
I was simply too lively, too extroverted, and too sociable,
to be
able to put up with this deadening isolation.
So, what happened then?
After leaving Essex University, in order to earn a living (and also protect
my own sanity) I buried the entire "Theory
of Multiple Form Logic" (alive),
in certain... rarely accessed drawers, back home, and tried very hard to forget all about it.
Well,
perhaps now (in 2003) the time has come to "cure the Trauma",
return to the "scene of the crime" (through Cyber-Space) and remember...
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Remember (for
instance) how some
open-minded
What actually happened to me, in Essex University during the late
eighties,
is probably a disgrace for the University and for the UK Academic
Community (of
that era) as a whole: - A couple of months before our
Final
Examinations, the "approved topic" for my "student
dissertation" (which was
"Multiple Form Logic", something agreed upon from the very first year
of the course) was changed "from above", without right of appeal, to
something else, which was totally different, and which was impossible
to
complete -in time- before Graduation.
The "official excuse" was that "Professor Turner, the Chief
Logician, was away on a journey to the States" and that "there was
nobody else suitably qualified to correct this Thesis". The real(?)
reason, however, is probably that some people in
I.e., if my "Multiple Form Logic" was correct, then much of
what we were being officially taught (in Logic) had to be seen
-officially- as wrong. But if that, which we were being taught
was to be
seen officially as wrong, then there would no longer be an
Absolute
(or God-given) Academic basis, for teaching it in the first
place.
(This, was the "Logic between the lines"... )
What about the Post-Graduate Course in
A few years before these sad events happened in
Essex, I had
reluctantly rejected (for health reasons, since I had been
beaten up
badly, by a bad coincidence, at around the same time) Professor
Cliff Jones's offer of a Post-Graduate Course in Computer Science and
Logic at
the University of Manchester. Professor Jones's exceptional
offer,
which had bypassed University Regulations in my favour (since I
did not
have a first degree) was unfortunately NOT repeated by Manchester
University
on the following academic year (1985/86), when I had finally recovered
completely from the violent
incident (I
will write about this incident elsewhere, in the near future), and felt
ready
to work and study.
NOTE: I still keep the original correspondence between me and
Professor
Jones intact, as evidence that this is all true.
Well, having irrevocably lost the exceptional "once-in-a-lifetime"
offer of being a PostGrad student without a first degree, I settled for
a
humble undergraduate course instead, in
Unfortunately,
As a result, I did not finish the (other) dissertation,
which had
been dictated "from above", which was irrelevant to my interests and
which I had never chosen) ...in
time for the
Examinations !
So, I failed!
(more precisely:
They "failed me").
NOTE: In the
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(
to be
continued, allegro con brio, molto libero, con techno / new age
etc. -
ad. lib, ad. inf)
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