RE: A Lesson in the Practicality of Philosophy I Learned Today
September 26, 2014 at 9:23 pm
(This post was last modified: September 26, 2014 at 9:26 pm by The Grand Nudger.)
Anyone who's ever tried to model the inner workings of a legacy thermostat like a Honeywell T87 (of Smithsonian fame) instantly recognizes the practicality of philosophy. The relationships between statements and operators is why your thermostat doesn't roast you alive when the heater comes on, or freeze you to death when the ac engages. Even today, with digitals...it's not actually as easy as a person would think to create a system capable of managing the temperature. You run into alot of counterintuitive problems that philosophers had pegged -long- before we ever got around to air conditioning. Without that knowledge, I'd hesitate to say that we never would have figured out a way...but it would have been an even bigger pain in the ass than it already is. The chipset interface from the probe to the control is pretty epic if you sit down and work out the implications. Ah, the power of negation.....
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