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<div class="moz-cite-prefix">Dear All,</div>
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<div class="moz-cite-prefix">In response to Joseph and Krassimir, I
think there might be an important first step. Taking (for clarity)
Yixin's terminology on "paradigm revolution" in information
science, the problem becomes clear: the lack of a nucleus of new
thought on which to edifice and extend the alternative paradigm.
Some of my learned colleagues will energetically exhibit their own
constructions, myself included, but helas (or alas)... Then, all
compilations, thesaurus, recollections, etc. we may attempt become
just interesting learned exercises. <br>
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<div class="moz-cite-prefix">Our medieval colleague, Doctor
Gratianus was indeed initiating "scientia nova" in Canon Law, as
he was achieving the concordance of the discordant (basically
between the multiplicity of civil laws and religious canons) by
applying the central principle of rationality and of common sense
(both!) to the multiple legal situations of social life. It was a
new way of thinking in that time, continued by more brilliant
thinkers in the following centuries.<br>
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<div class="moz-cite-prefix">Where is that new thought or central
principle(s) of information that are eluding us?</div>
<div class="moz-cite-prefix">Tomorrow I will post a poetic version
of the question.</div>
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<div class="moz-cite-prefix">Best regards to all,</div>
<div class="moz-cite-prefix">--Pedro<br>
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<div class="moz-cite-prefix">El 18/11/2021 a las 16:43,
<a class="moz-txt-link-abbreviated" href="mailto:joe.brenner@bluewin.ch">joe.brenner@bluewin.ch</a> escribió:<br>
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<div><font size="3" face="trebuchet ms">Dear Pedro,</font></div>
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<div><font size="3" face="trebuchet ms">Very interesting, thank
you. I will think about your methodological point. In the
meantime, I started thinking about audiences/partners for this
initiative. On idea was people involved in the Philosophy of
Law. Another related field is that of ethics - a rapprochement
with Rafael Capurro might be envisaged. The issues are too
important not to make fresh starts everywhere one can.</font></div>
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<div><font size="3" face="trebuchet ms">Best wishes,</font></div>
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<div><font size="3">Joseph</font></div>
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>Date : 18/11/2021 - 14:24 (E)<br>
>À : <a class="moz-txt-link-abbreviated" href="mailto:fis@listas.unizar.es">fis@listas.unizar.es</a><br>
>Objet : [Fis] DECRETUM: Concordance of the Discordant<br>
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>Dear FIS Colleagues,<br>
><br>
>In the early XII Century, something very interesting
occurred around the <br>
>first university created in Europe (Bologna). The situation
of law in <br>
>that time was very confusing, with overlapping civil and
religious <br>
>canons that had been developed independently. Gratian
(Gratianus) was a <br>
>fine jurist and canon lawyer operating in Tuscany, and
teacher, and <br>
>monastic rubricator in Bologna. He produced an admirable
synthesis, <br>
>Decretum: Concordia Discordantium Canonum. In the first,
more concise, <br>
>version, the synthetic work was framed in three parts: a
sophisticate <br>
>Introduction in which fundamental Distinctiones
(distinctions) were <br>
>made, and a second part with 36 causae or situations divided
into <br>
>concrete questions with systematic commentaries (Summae).
The third <br>
>part discussed the difficulties, bringing forward solutions
via <br>
>different auctoritates from a variety of sources.<br>
><br>
>The work supposed a watershed for Western Law. He was
acclaimed as <br>
>Father of the Canon Law, appreciatively cited in Dante's
Divine Comedy <br>
>(with a place in Paradise!), and considered as the creator
of rational <br>
>law. Gratian himself coined the term "scientia nova" (new
science) <br>
>referring to his synthesis, which indeed became highly
influential <br>
>outside law, particularly concerning his methodology of
questions and <br>
>systematic commentaries or Summae. Actually, later great
synthesizers in <br>
>philosophy and theology (Albertus Magnus, Thomas Aquinas)
were <br>
>influenced by his method, as well the further development of
the <br>
>Scholastic School in next centuries...<br>
><br>
>Could the reflection on Doctor Gratianus strenuous work
& clever <br>
>methodology, bringing concordance among the discordant, be
of interest <br>
>for our troubles on the general study of information and on
the <br>
>foundations of information science in particular? In my own
case, those <br>
>ten fundamental principles I penned time ago, could be
easily <br>
>transformed into a few of the questions... Rather than
looking for the <br>
>single, exclusive point of view, the participation in
establishing <br>
>concordance among the discordant via a multidisciplinary
spattering of <br>
>basic questions is what transpires when one contemplates the
historic of <br>
>our list debates. See the 64 "questions" FIS has dealt with
up to now: <br>
><a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://fis.sciforum.net/fis-discussion-sessions/">https://fis.sciforum.net/fis-discussion-sessions/</a> Of
course, with <br>
>hindsight, it could be done better.<br>
><br>
>All the best,<br>
><br>
>--Pedro<br>
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