Part 03:
Everyday Practical & Engineering Dialectics Series.
Platon’s
«Arithmoi
Eidetikoi»
Dialectics
and the
Harmonized
Tariff
Schedule
[HTS].
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and my honor, as an elected member
of the Foundation Encyclopedia Dialectica [F.E.D.]
General Council, and
as a voting member of F.E.D., to share, with you, from time to time, as they are approved for public release by the F.E.D. General Council, Foundation discourses on key technological and managerial cases of Seldonian Dialectic.
The 3rd text in
this series is posted below
[Some E.D.
standard edits have been applied, in the version presented below, by the editors
of the F.E.D. Special Council for the Encyclopedia,
to the direct transcript of our co-founder’s
discourse].
Seldon
–
“Platon’s ancient, «arithmoi eidetikoi»
version of dialectics keeps “popping up” – albeit usually in ‘trans-Platonian’,
‘de-idealized’, more concrete and practical forms – in the modern world,
including where Platonian-leaning, idealist philosophers
might least expect”.
“The, currently-in-vast-use,
U.S. HTS codes – or Harmonized
Tariff Schedule
codes – have a particular ‘finitary qualo-fractal content-structure’, that categorizes commodities
in international trade.”
“Content-Structure
Overview.
- Digits:
HTS codes are typically 10 digits in
character-length, where:
- The first 6 digits are standardized
internationally, as part of the Harmonized System
(HS).
- The next 4 digits are specific to
the U.S. and provide further, deeper, more
detailed categorization.
‘Qualo-Fractal’
Classification/Categorization.
- «Genos» to Species,
on to Sub-Species: The ‘content-structure’
is organized from broad, general categories to more specific
ones, forming an «arithmoi eidetikoi»-like
multi-level, multi-scale, self-similarity recurrence “tree” [‘finitary, dialectical qualo-fractal’] of «aufheben»,
“vertical” ‘meta-unit-izations’, or ‘meta-category-izations’, with rightward
rising ‘determinateness’, or ‘determinations-richness’.
- For example:
- “Chapter”: The first, left-most two digits
represent the “chapter”, or most ‘gene-ral’ category
[«genos», or ‘hyper-species’ category]
of commodities (e.g., 01 for live animals).
- “Heading”: The next two [‘‘‘species’’’]
digits specify the heading within that “chapter”
(e.g., 0102 for bovine live animals).
- “Subheading”: The following two digits provide a
more detailed, still-more-determinate [‘hypo-species’]
sub-categorization, via adjoining further determinations (e.g., 0102.90
for other bovine live animals). …”
“Such a nested tree of
commodity Kinds categories is needed, in large part because even ‘sub-sub-category,
or ‘sub2-category’
distinctions’ can trigger differences in tariff charges.”
“Platon is no doubt “spinning
in his grave” over the mundane applications to which the class-ificational technology
rooted in his ancient, “transcendental” insights is being put!”
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¡ENJOY!
Regards,
Miguel
Detonacciones,
Voting Member, Foundation Encyclopedia Dialectica [F.E.D.];
Elected Member, F.E.D. General Council;
Participant, F.E.D. Special Council for Public Liaison;
Officer, F.E.D. Office of Public Liaison.
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