Nevertheless, we are an optimistic
lot and have big plans: J
we even introduced the term inductive informatics for the new science emerging around the development and various applications of the ETS formalism (this is to honor the ideas of the true prophet of modern science, Francis
Bacon)
moreover, on the philosophical side,
as many scientists and non-scientists
have noted, numeric formalisms have failed “to reveal the
unity of nature”; so we believe that,
as a general “symbolic” formalism,
ETS, when developed, promises to fit the bill.