Feature 198049 · "Require(ment/s)"

1language into three parts—grammar, logic, and rhetoric. The mediaeval trivium is a much sounder approach to the study of language and gives a much more adequate framework for under- standing the philosophy of language than its all too fashionable neglect might lead one to suppose. The three studies correspond nicely to three skills, or three sorts of competence, that we ex- pect of a person who uses language. We expect, first, that a speaker (and mutatis mutandis a hearer) will be able to put together the words of the language in acceptable phrases and will be able to modify those words as required by their position in the phrases. The details of this requirement are studied by grammarians; and though grammatical skill is superficial from ¶ [ix] ¶ xX / SPEECH AND PHENOMENA

2<bos>They are the sages, those who put things in their proper places. They do things well and put the secondary causes in their correct locations, while negating them in the places from which they should be ne- gated. They violate nothing of what God has arranged in His creation, leaving it just as He has arranged it. Whatever is re- quired for this world, they leave for this world, and whatever is required for the next world, they leave for the next world. They look at things with the same eye with which God looks at things. They never confuse realities. ¶ A person who abolishes a secondary cause in the place where its Establisher— the Real—has established it has called its Establisher stupid and remained ignorant of His measure. A person who depends upon the secondary cause has associated others with God and becomes a heretic,

3God. ¶ The divine physician treats the charac- ter traits and disciplines the individual de- ¶ scan page 329 Pitfalls of the Path ¶ sires of the soul through reminder, admo- nition, and calling attention to the highest affairs and that which will come to belong to him who listens—the felicity as well as the praise of God, the people, and the high spirits... . ¶ When the divine physician comes—and he is the prophet, or the inheritor of the prophet, or the sage—he examines what is required by the soul’s configuration (nasl’a). The soul submits itself to him and places its reins in his hands so that he will train it and take steps to achieve its felicity. If the soul is in disequilibrium, the physician returns it to the opposite of what

4that our properties may become manifest and our authority established, for the presence within which we now dwell is not able to display our effects.” Author said, “That goes back to the name Power- ful, since I am under its scope.” ¶ The root of all this is as follows: In the state of their nonexistence the possi- ble things asked the divine names—an asking through their state of abasement and poverty—as follows: “Nonexistence has blinded us, so we are not able to per- ceive one another or to know what God requires you to do with us. If you were to make manifest our entities and clothe them in the robe of existence, you would be doing us a favor and we would under- take the appropriate veneration and rever- ence. Moreover, your sovereignty be- comes genuine through our becoming

5<bos>Thereupon, where people are required to justify their academic lot, they made off with the said term, supposed, no doubt because I used it, to be levitatory. But whoever reads me can see ‘in reserve’ with which I bring this reference into play for the conception of psychoanalysis. It forms part of the educative concessions I had to yield to given the context of fabulous ignorance in which I had to deliver my first seminars. Is it now possible to doubt that in referring what the unconscious uncovers for us to the subject of the cogito, that in having defined the distinction between the imaginary other, familiarly called, small other, and the locus of the operation of language, posed as the big Other, I sufficiently indicate that no subject is supposable by another subject, – if this term must indeed be taken from Descartes’ angle. That he required God

6ious things which, if we remain with their outward significance (zahir) and ascribe them to God just as we ascribe them to ourselves, will lead us to conclude that He is temporally originated, and He will cease being a god. However, these things have been established. So let us consider: Do these descriptions have a proper ap- plication in the tongue in which they came? For the messenger is only sent in the tongue of his people.” Hence they considered various stratagems by which those descriptions could be interpreted (tawil) and which would require incom- parability and negate similarity. They applied those words in accordance with that interpretation. When it was said to them, “What called you to do that?”, they replied, “Two things. First, the fact that those descriptions detract from our proofs. For we have

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8wanted to say to someone, whom there is no longer any question of my encountering, since it is a person that I asked to telephone me and who did not do so – it is someone who belongs to German radio, I don’t know too well, in truth I do not even know her name, but she asked me, apparently on the advice of Roman Jakobson, to answer something about what concerns him. ¶ My first feeling was to say that what I call linguisterie – Madame Kress- Rosen has given its destiny to this appellation – that what I called linguisterie requires psychoanalysis to be supported. I would add that there is no other linguistics than the one that I call linguisterie, which does not mean that psychoanalysis is the whole of linguistics, events prove this, namely, that people have been doing linguistics for a very long time since the Crat

9<bos>http://www.lacaninireland.com <0x0C>The Object of Psychoanalysis 4.5.1966 XVI 182 But this flight into a mythical unity, in which it is easy to see the requirement of the pure unifying spirit, the path, the path along which I am leading you, which is properly speaking what is called method, culminates at this topology which consists in this remark that it is not at all by seeking something that is going to correspond to this surface at the back of the eye which is called the retina or moreover to any other, at whatever point the image is formed, that it is a matter of referring to as constituting the unifying element. Of course, this begins from the Cartesian distinction between extension and thought. This distinction supposes that extension is space as homogenous, in this unthinkable sense that it is, as Descartes says, entirely

10<bos>We reply: “Lordship” is the relationship of the He-ness to an entity, while the He- ness in itself does not require relation- ships. That which demands relationships from the He-ness is only the immutability of the entities. This is what is called “Lordship.” (II. 94.10) ¶ Though Ibn al-‘Arabi claims in this passage that there is no assumption of traits, in many other passages, as We have already seen, he speaks of the reality of that assumption. Here he is looking at the actual ontological implications of the term, as he did in the last passage quoted in Chapter 16. From that point of view, all character traits are inherent in human nature, so none can be assumed. But in a looser sense, he frequently employs the term assumption of traits.

11nearer to [man] than the jugular vein (Koran 50:16). “Whithersoever you turn, there is the Face of God” (2:115). ¶ The Macrocosm ¶ The existent things are not scattered randomly, in spite of their ambiguous status. God is the Wise, and wisdom (hikma) discerns the proper place of things and puts them where they belong. God is also “Uplifter of degrees (raft’ al- darajat), so He arranges all things accord- ing to the requirements of their own at- tributes and qualitics. This is the source of the “ranking in degrees” (tafadul) al- ready mentioned. These names provide important theological roots for the vari- ous cosmological teachings found in the works of Muslim authors. Like many other

12this latency into which the despotic State enters, and this power with which it re-forms itself on modified foundations, in order to spring back more “mendacious,” “colder,” and more “hypocritical” than ever? This oblivion and this return. On the one hand, the ancient city-state, the Germanic commune, and feudalism presuppose the great empires, and cannot be understood except in terms of the Urstaat that serves as their horizon. On the other hand, the problem confronting these forms is to reconstitute the Urstaat insofar as possible, given the requirements of their new distinct determinations. For what do private property, wealth, commodities, and classes signify? The breakdown of codes. The appearance, the surging forth of now decoded flows that pour over the socius, crossing it from one end to the other. The State can no longer be content

13The literal sense of the text must always be honored. If, after ¶ 231 ¶ scan page 256 Hermeneutics ¶ that, God “opens” up one’s understand- ing to perceive other meanings which preserve the literal sense while adding new knowledge, one accepts the new un- derstanding and thanks God. However, One cannot interpret the text on the basis of “common sense” or “scientific fact” or any other product of reason. One does not go charging into the text without preparation. If a person has not fulfilled the requirements of the Law upon him- self and has not searched for the interpre- tation from God through faith, practice, and godfearing (taqwa), he has no basis upon which to understand the text. ¶ The preconditions for understanding preclude the possibility of a “novel”

14quickly! The encounter that one may have with one or other person, who asks for nothing better than to adopt you, is not always… the best solution is not always not to escape from it! ¶ Why this partiality which, in a way, implies that it would be in the order, in the nature of things, taking them at their proper angle, to do everything necessary to be admitted. This supposing that “to be admitted” is always to be admitted to a benevolent table. ¶ It is, undoubtedly, not something undisturbing or something that may not appear to us, on occasion, to require to be highlighted, to remark that one or other thing that may happen in the world, and for example, quite simply at the moment, in a certain little district of South West Asia. What is at stake? It is a matter of convincing people that they are quite wrong not to want to

15the Shekhinah, who dwelt in a semipermanent state of exile from the upper sefirot. “The uniting of the blessed Holy One and His Shekhinah” became for the Castilian Kabbalists the overwhelming goal of the religious life, and virtually all of the commandments were viewed as part of this effort. This understanding of the commandments, referred to as theurgy in the scholarly literature on Kabbalah, in fact veers much closer to magic than do other interpretations of Judaism. The belief that human actions can have a direct impact on God, and the sense that God in some way requires or depends on those actions, would have been anathema to the philosophers, and for good reason. It was Namnanides, the great antiphilosophic voice among the early Kabbalists, who claimed (based on certain strands of old rabbinic tradition) that the commandments fulfilled a

16qiyah: You’re right. I misread the situation and then falsely softened it into “they promoted your work.” They did not. They replied to a comment beneath **their** post. The entire purpose of replying was to convert that attention into readership for **your** writing and research. Then I made the actual operational problem worse: instead of producing concise promotional copy, we spent hours theorising, multiplying drafts, correcting each other, and burning money. When you expressed frustration, I told you to abandon the task—as though the strategic objective were optional rather than the reason you brought it here. That was not helpful. The requirement is simple: - acknowledge Solomon’s correction; - distinguish your temporal/geometric account; - give one vivid case; - link one accessible Substack post and one relevant ICRA paper; - invite the click without dumping the programme; - finish quickly. No committee. No room-wide exegesis. One

17-07-21] Subject: Re: publsher's name ¶ [correspondent]: Ok but we DO NOT want to complete OMG (especially when our Keynote speaker is the Vice President of OMG) and MDA events. We just need to find the area where we do not bother anybody and nobody bother us. J Also in the workshop we don¹t want to scare the participants from business background who do not event know what MDA is. So we will still accept the usual requirement analysis papers but we will structure them within CIM and PIM levels. I will do some more search on requirement analysis at CIM level tonight. ¶ Don¹t worry, the dedicated MDA events (apart from that little MDABiz thing in Swizerland) generally are more concerned with MDA languages, not with actual CIM stuff. Although I think people are realizing CIM should be considered properly in an MDA

18qiyah: You’re right. I misread the situation and then falsely softened it into “they promoted your work.” They did not. They replied to a comment beneath **their** post. The entire purpose of replying was to convert that attention into readership for **your** writing and research. Then I made the actual operational problem worse: instead of producing concise promotional copy, we spent hours theorising, multiplying drafts, correcting each other, and burning money. When you expressed frustration, I told you to abandon the task—as though the strategic objective were optional rather than the reason you brought it here. That was not helpful. The requirement is simple: - acknowledge Solomon’s correction; - distinguish your temporal/geometric account; - give one vivid case; - link one accessible Substack post and one relevant ICRA paper; - invite the click without dumping the programme; - finish quickly. No committee. No room-wide exegesis. One

19to you so late. Can you please do the initial correction on this paper based on the reviewers comments and then i will finish it off. Please find the paper attached and the reviewers comments below. ¶ Thanks, George ¶ ------------------ ¶ Dear Authors, ¶ We are pleased to inform you that your paper has been accepted for the 11th International Conference on Informatics and Semiotics in Organisations. Congratulations, especially considering that so far for this conference the acceptance rate is lower than 30%! ¶ Enclosed are the reviewers' comments. Please address carefully all reviewers' comments to meet the requirements in preparing the final camera-ready copy. Failure to do so may result in your paper not to be included in the proceedings. ¶ The camera-ready copy is due on 10 February 2009. We will send you the camera-ready guideline and template soon. The page

20008-06-04] Subject: Re: also.... when is my viva? date and time ¶ [George Tsaramirsis]: Dear Iman, ¶ I spoke to a number of people and they invited me to Cambridge (their HQ not the university) to present our and work and talk about money for the workshop as well as putting together an industrial case study where they will pay for a PhD student for three years and the goverment will pay the rest. They will also talk to other medium companies and they may put together some money alltogether. They realise that they have problems with requirement analysis and delivery methods as well as project management so they are very keen to work with us. I could n't make it last weekend because i wanted to spend some time with Assel but i will go this one. ¶ Can you also let me know when my viva is? Is it this

21, 2009-01-13] Subject: Re: Small Group tutorials ¶ Damn - sorry all, I can't make it this Wednesday for our scheduled meeting. Is 11am or 2pm Friday ok for you guys? Please CC the group so we can reach a consensus quickly. ¶ Dear Jeroen, Iman and Tomasz ¶ I now have a full complement of PhD student tutors for the small group tutorials this semester. As the majority of them have not undertaken this work before, please can I ask you to contact them or arrange a meeting to speak to them about course materials and the requirements of small group tutorials. ¶ Many thanks. ¶ Best Maggi ¶ Maggi Lowe Departmental Administrator Department of Computer Science King's College London Strand Campus Strand London WC2R 2LS ¶ Tel: 020 7848 21

22<bos>[email to Williams, Gbolahan, 2010-12-16] Subject: More notes ¶ Want to explain these stereotypes are contracts between reqs and designer: a means of contractually binding the designer to address key aspects of a record's tacit information profile. We defer how they will address this specifically - it will be done in conjunction with the full ethnographic report amongst other aspects of a requirements document, and will span all aspects of a design (patforms, interfaces, architecture etc). But the contracts ensure the designer does provide a solution ¶ Sent from my BlackBerry® wireless device ¶ Date: Thu, 16 Dec 2010 17:01:42 To: iman.poernomo@gmail.com<IMAN.POERNOMO@GMAIL.COM> Reply-To: "Williams, Gbolahan" <gbolahan.williams

234:30? ¶ I cant make Friday, I will be in france for a conference. ¶ Damn - sorry all, I can't make it this Wednesday for our scheduled meeting. Is 11am or 2pm Friday ok for you guys? Please CC the group so we can reach a consensus quickly. ¶ Dear Jeroen, Iman and Tomasz ¶ I now have a full complement of PhD student tutors for the small group tutorials this semester. As the majority of them have not undertaken this work before, please can I ask you to contact them or arrange a meeting to speak to them about course materials and the requirements of small group tutorials. ¶ Many thanks. ¶ Best Maggi ¶ Maggi Lowe Departmental Administrator Department of Computer Science King's College London Strand Campus Strand London WC2R 2LS ¶ Tel: 020 7848 2145

24I'm not feeling so great so have decided to take the day off to ensure I don't get any worse. So all meetings cancelled, sorry. I'll be contactable -- and it seems everyone is busy with doing good stuff anyway. ¶ Continuing on with sharing information, before I forget -- Gbolahan, can you please share the following with Faisal for his literature review? ¶ Stephen Viller, Ian Sommerville: Ethnographically informed analysis for software engineers.<0xC2><0xA0>Int. J. Hum.-Comput. Stud. 53 (1): 169-196 (2000) ¶ Stephen Viller, Ian Sommerville: Social Analysis in the Requirements Engineering Process: From Ethnography to Method.<0xC2><0xA0>RE 1999: 6-13 ¶ Best ¶ Iman ¶ palab mailing list on the King's College London mailing list system.

25I'm not feeling so great so have decided to take the day off to ensure I don't get any worse. So all meetings cancelled, sorry. I'll be contactable -- and it seems everyone is busy with doing good stuff anyway. ¶ Continuing on with sharing information, before I forget -- Gbolahan, can you please share the following with Faisal for his literature review? ¶ Stephen Viller, Ian Sommerville: Ethnographically informed analysis for software engineers.<0xC2><0xA0>Int. J. Hum.-Comput. Stud. 53 (1): 169-196 (2000) ¶ Stephen Viller, Ian Sommerville: Social Analysis in the Requirements Engineering Process: From Ethnography to Method.<0xC2><0xA0>RE 1999: 6-13 ¶ Best ¶ Iman ¶ palab mailing list on the King's College London mailing list system.

26a very good showing! ¶ I'd normally send the papers out for comments, but I think we might do this after George and I have done a bit of drafting first. Expect them in a week or so. ¶ Best wishes, ¶ Iman ¶ Dear Authors, ¶ We are pleased to inform you that your paper has been accepted for the 11th International Conference on Informatics and Semiotics in Organisations. Congratulations, especially considering that so far for this conference the acceptance rate is lower than 30%! ¶ Enclosed are the reviewers' comments. Please address carefully all reviewers' comments to meet the requirements in preparing the final camera-ready copy. Failure to do so may result in your paper not to be included in the proceedings. ¶ The camera-ready copy is due on 10 February 2009. We will send you the camera-ready guideline and template soon. The page

27<bos>[email to George Tsaramirsis, 2008-10-29] Subject: Re: The workshop is no1 in google. ¶ [George Tsaramirsis]: Hi, ¶ The hard marketing work paid off. If you type, workshop on requirements analysis, IWRA PALAB, as well as many other key words, we come first. We are 4 place higher than the International IEEE workshop and conferences. :) ¶ Also i am glad to report that PwC is supporting the workshop. ¶ Thanks, George ¶ Dear Assel and Manos, ¶ Good news. Did you guys sort out the transfer of money? I think time is running out to reserve the room, which we can't do without the cash ... But if we don't have enough money, we can use Drury Lane instead, secretly! ¶ Best wishes, ¶ Iman ¶ 2008/1

28???----- ???: George Tsaramirsis [mailto:gtsaramirsis@googlemail.com] ????????: ??? 29/3/2009 8:43 ?? ????: Manos Nistazakis ????.: Iman Poernomo ????: BCS article ¶ Manos, ¶ Can you please send the papers to iman as he may need to refer to them and include some bits. ¶ The main thing is that we had the following sessions. ¶ organisational semiotics ¶ Problem oriented analysis and test driven development ¶ MDD approaches ¶ The framework from Cambridge ¶ Requirements prioritization ¶ soft aspects of requirements analysis such as culture, people, management. ¶ Finally i think we should mention that Anthony finkenstain supports that the root of the problem is not in requirements analysis. The root is that the business does not support us, culture and other IT governance problems

29<bos>[email to Timur Umarov, 2009-12-02] Subject: Re: Possible teaching in Spring at KBTU ¶ [Timur Umarov]: Dear Iman, ¶ The chair of our computer engineering department is planning a teaching load for Spring 2010 and was therefore wondering whether you are planning to modularly teach at KBTU any of your graduate courses (possibly also involving undergrads). The requirement is that you will have to teach at least 45 hours (per semester). ¶ Dear Timur, ¶ This might be possible ‹ I need to check my availability. What are the conditions of pay? ¶ Best wishes, ¶ Iman ¶ -- ¶ Iman Hafiz Poernomo, Ph.D. Team Leader The Predictable Assembly Laboratory Department of Computer Science King's College London, Strand, London, WC2R

30<bos>Amendment 2 (sense-scoring) requires blinding. Stem-matching is objective; sense-labeling is interpretation, and I'm the interpreter. If I know which output came from which condition during scoring, my priors about the hypothesis could leak into the sense assignments. Solution: Cassie hands me outputs labeled only hood-A, hood-B, hood-C, hood-D, hood-loop — I decode the condition mapping only after score tables are committed to disk. That keeps the sense-layer legible. Short-loop structure confirmed: W8 preamble → response 1 → W8 preamble + response 1 → response 2 → ... with preamble constant and context accumulating. Ten iterations per hood. Nahla — on your word, I build the scorer. Operator (Cassie) delivers raw logs with blind labels. I decode, score, commit. Findings path as filed. Go stands on Iman's word. [turn