Mediatization, polarization, and intolerance (between environments, media, and circulation)

Hypotheses about polarization, mediatization, and algorithms 307 The referred book, in abundance, establishes an anal- ogy between the “knowledge engineer” and Sherlock Holmes. He must have the experience of “subtle observation” of the last one. Relations between nodules, arcs, and links, in triads of ob- jects/attributes/values, are called “semantic networks.” Objects can be a jacket, hats, people, etcetera; the links are connective, descriptive, what establishes a relationship between them, the attributes, and values. Every process must be carefully dia- grammed. We understand this as a representation of objects, agents, situations, etcetera of the algorithms. But this only takes place with logical operations, whether mathematical or sym- bolic. In the latter case, it manifests itself in the relationship be- tween the rule, case, and result (therefore, a syllogism). Example of variable “rules” (HARMON; KING, 1988, p. 49): If the tattoo is of a fish and the scales of the fish are pink. [...] So, the origin of the tattoo is from China [...] If the tattoo is of a snake and the color of the snake’s scales is blue [...] Then, the origin of the tattoo will be Hong Kong [...] If the tattoo is of a dragon and the color of the dragon’s scales is red [...] Then, the origin of the tattoo will be Beijing. This system of the “variable rules” presented by the authors is typically a deductive syllogism, according to Peirce’s perspective, but the issue does not end there. On page 61, they present “a table of truth” (publicized in symbolic mathematical tables), which, in a less pretentious way, can be translated using Piaget’s formulation - it is a combination of propositions that tends to increase complexity according to the number of syllo- gisms involved. The examples presented by the authors are go- ing to the theater (a relatively simple problem) to more complex problems, in which six hundred rules are identified (like the medical diagnosis system of the time, Mycin, created at Stanford University - never used commercially due to ethical conflicts in the medical field). We have, in the references above, expressions of the de- ductive argument. However, one can question the scope of the validity of the combinatorics of propositions. For example, one