homeopathic software point
Posted: Tue Oct 01, 2002 1:41 am
To correct earlier info I had given re: homeopathic software:
I wrote to Kim Elia about RADAR,; the following explains my question:
Kim,
Wrote this recently to someone when discussing computer software:
Note that one reason (among many others) to use the Complete Repertory
and
Synthesis in Tandem: one feature of the Complete Repertory is COMPOSITE
MAIN
RUBRICS,
which contain all the remedies in all the subrubrics.
.
This lends itself well to initial repertorizations
in difficult cases without missing any remedies.
I assume Radar version of synthesis does not have any way of creating
such composite main rubrics, since they are not present in the book. .
The idea of keeping a main rubric
which is limited
to remedies which have a certain characteristic in general and markedly,
instead of just
absolutely (as in Kent's original), is a good one in my opinion if the
rubric can be maintained
accurately, but I would say its usefulness
is diminished if new remedies come around that have the characteristic
markedly,
but this has yet to be confirmed, and thus they
are not included.
As in the above statement about the
Complete Repertory, the Composite rubric is far more useful in doing
computerized elimination repertorizations, so it actually would be
optimal to have both features in a repertory. And since Synthesis
covers more obscure
remedies (although typically has smaller rubrics) than the Complete, it
would be quite useful to have that
capability built in to
RADAR, say a function which
adds the "marquis" rubric and all the subrubrics together, and takes
that for the repertorization;
or (in Synthesis 9), having a composite main rubric, followed by a main
rubric as exists now in the book. With
more remedies included in synthesis, the elimination would nicely
complement one done with the Complete.
For a practitioner using both repertories,
the likelihood of doing an elimination and missing a remedy having a
particular characteristic
would be optimally minimized if
both repertories have this capability.
Can Radar do this already (with synthesis)?
Kim Elia wrote:
I wrote to Kim Elia about RADAR,; the following explains my question:
Kim,
Wrote this recently to someone when discussing computer software:
Note that one reason (among many others) to use the Complete Repertory
and
Synthesis in Tandem: one feature of the Complete Repertory is COMPOSITE
MAIN
RUBRICS,
which contain all the remedies in all the subrubrics.
.
This lends itself well to initial repertorizations
in difficult cases without missing any remedies.
I assume Radar version of synthesis does not have any way of creating
such composite main rubrics, since they are not present in the book. .
The idea of keeping a main rubric
which is limited
to remedies which have a certain characteristic in general and markedly,
instead of just
absolutely (as in Kent's original), is a good one in my opinion if the
rubric can be maintained
accurately, but I would say its usefulness
is diminished if new remedies come around that have the characteristic
markedly,
but this has yet to be confirmed, and thus they
are not included.
As in the above statement about the
Complete Repertory, the Composite rubric is far more useful in doing
computerized elimination repertorizations, so it actually would be
optimal to have both features in a repertory. And since Synthesis
covers more obscure
remedies (although typically has smaller rubrics) than the Complete, it
would be quite useful to have that
capability built in to
RADAR, say a function which
adds the "marquis" rubric and all the subrubrics together, and takes
that for the repertorization;
or (in Synthesis 9), having a composite main rubric, followed by a main
rubric as exists now in the book. With
more remedies included in synthesis, the elimination would nicely
complement one done with the Complete.
For a practitioner using both repertories,
the likelihood of doing an elimination and missing a remedy having a
particular characteristic
would be optimally minimized if
both repertories have this capability.
Can Radar do this already (with synthesis)?
Kim Elia wrote: