NOTES

INTRODUCTION

1.  The project of a “science of philosophy” has to be nuanced. It cannot mean that philosophy becomes the “object” a science aims for, but only that it is the datum or the material required by this science outside every “objectivation” and in view of a science of the essence of science, an essence that is its “real object.” The concept of “object of a science” is ambiguous and will be dissolved. We distinguish the phenomenon-object or datum and the real-object of a science.

2.  Obviously “artificial philosophy” does not designate the “philosophy of the artificial” or the “philosophy of Artificial Intelligence,” but rather an “artificial” treatment of philosophy itself.

1. SCIENCE

1.  A first, more reduced and less precise version of this chapter appeared in the journal La Décision philosophique (Editions Osiris, 1987). That text is expected to introduce a treatise devoted entirely to “first science” or science of the essence of science.

4. THE CONCEPTS OF GENERALIZED FRACTALITY AND CHAOS

1.  La Recherche, no. 85, January 1978, p. 18.

2.  Citations from Les Objects fractals.