A designer is someone who knows when to choose her/his 'progressive moments.'

in: Notes on Metapattern and enneadic semiosis, part 2

 

With new problems occurring, developing conceptual models is very much a creative process. No definitive recipe can be assumed to arrive at the overall modeling result.

in: The pattern of metapattern: ontological formalization of context and time for open interconnection

 

A designer doesn’t just passively picture information space, but also actively helps to constitute it as her/his design is implemented. It is where and when mistakes are inevitable, making it even critical to avail of a method allowing for opportunities to be explored and errors to be corrected as soon as they are discovered.

in: Open conceptual modeling with Metapattern

 

Apparently, there is no escaping becoming associated with urging for a political departure when promoting contextualism.

in: Invitation to contextualism

 

At the scale of integrated order, nothing is classified a priori. For idealized design, anyway, we therefore have to start with … something. (Such radical abstraction will probably not be practiced later on, but at an early stage of design — which you might call analysis — I find it helps to avoid conceptual preoccupation.)

in: note 71.20

 

[T]here is no way to come up with a more encompassing design from extracting elements or whatever from a set of designs at smaller scale(s). At an increased scale, a design is sui generis. It therefore needs a creative human to produce such a more comprehensive design, or model.

in: note 71.39

 

Now, why would Peirce demand such an attitude of openness? I believe it has to do with his position as an academic outsider, frustrations and all. Wasn’t he continuously offering ideas et cetera for serious consideration, but finding them academically neglected?

in: note 80.6