Just a year ago,
a carton containing documents in transit to storage in my barn tipped over and
spilled its contents upon the floor.
Out fell a clipped-
together long-lost manuscript packet last seen more than two decades ago. Containing
seminal notions, this material had been assembled shortly before and just after
the memorable visit to Case Institute in April, 1959.
Because this catalytic
MS source was unavailable at the time of writing the "Epistemic Prehistory",
I was forced then to rely upon fallible memory. But now this recent re-emergence
permits a new and better view of the actual gestation and birth process.
So we begin this revisionist acount on the WWW with the three "Ditto" sheets prepared the morning of April 24, 1959 in the late Prof. Don Eckman's office just moments before presenting my Seminar Lecture.
(Note: this was
written by Prof. Paytner c. March, 1999).