User:Physis/Non-logical symbol

I have created this article one and a half year ago, cca alongside with initiating Structure (mathematical logic) and Assignment (mathematical logic). At that time, I was reading mathematical articles, e.g. Elementary substructure, and saw that concepts like "assignment" are only mentioned or implicitly circumscribed, scattered among several articles. Thus I created a standalone article for Assignment (mathematical logic), this helped me to "modularize out" this important auxiliary concept in a clear way. This enabled that the articles that implicitly mentioned it (e.g. Elementary substructure) could be rewritten in a more clear way: they could concentrate on the essence of their topic better, because the used auxiliary concepts became "modularized out" in these standalone auxiliary articles. In short, this improved reuse and modularity, in a similar way as in the programming methodologies.

Maybe it was these experiences that made me tend to "split off" auxiliary concepts in standalone articles. Thus, at the time I was writing signature (mathematical logic), I split off non-logical symbol from it almost automatically, without much thinking. At that time, it simply seemed for me that there will be more than one important articles with links to non-logical symbol, thus the principle of "modularity" and "reuse" will justify its "modularization" into a standalone article.

Sorry if this proved to be foredoomed to failure. At that time I tended to write articles even about concepts for which I lacked the overview: interconnectedness, their exact place in the general building of the logic. Since a year I stopped to write articles about concepts whose whole relevance I do not overview clearly. I began since a year to prepare my contributions better in advance offline, check their justification in advance. Since then I restrict my contributing things for which I lack overview only on talk pages.

I found some remarks with emotional side-kicks here to be horrifying --- not so because of their unfactuality, but paradoxically exactly because their possibility to be true. Of course I really do have a lack of sharp sensibility to the limits of my knowledge, which is dangerous in jobs like medicine doctor, and at least annoying even in other fields. Despite of this, I find some emotional sidekicks above about "perverted"ness and "silly"ness and "deliberatly to confuse"ness to be sort of simply offtopic and out-of-place.

Including Your work with this article, I thank You all also for Your working with Assignment (mathematical logic), Many-sorted logic, Structure (mathematical logic), Logical axiom, Hilbert-style deduction system. These articles I initiated more than a year ago may be of varying quality.

Physis (talk) 11:24, 30 May 2008 (UTC)