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.externalLink {text-decoration:underline;}

.indent {margin-left:3em;}
.outdent {margin-left:3em; text-indent:-3em;}
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.tiddlyLinkExisting {font-weight:bold;}
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#sidebarOptions .sliderPanel a {font-weight:bold; display:inline; padding:0;}
#sidebarOptions .sliderPanel input {margin:0 0 0.3em 0;}
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.wizard h1 {font-size:2em; font-weight:bold; background:none; padding:0; margin:0.4em 0 0.2em;}
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.wizard .button {padding:0.1em 0.2em;}

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.viewer {line-height:1.4em; padding-top:0.5em;}
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This StyleSheet can be used directly by languages such as Chinese, Japanese and Korean which need larger font sizes.
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.subtitle {font-size:0.8em;}
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#displayArea {margin: 1em 1em 0em;}
noscript {display:none;} /* Fixes a feature in Firefox 1.5.0.2 where print preview displays the noscript content */
}
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<div class='header' macro='gradient vert [[ColorPalette::PrimaryLight]] [[ColorPalette::PrimaryMid]]'>
<div class='headerShadow'>
<span class='siteTitle' refresh='content' tiddler='SiteTitle'></span>&nbsp;
<span class='siteSubtitle' refresh='content' tiddler='SiteSubtitle'></span>
</div>
<div class='headerForeground'>
<span class='siteTitle' refresh='content' tiddler='SiteTitle'></span>&nbsp;
<span class='siteSubtitle' refresh='content' tiddler='SiteSubtitle'></span>
</div>
</div>
<div id='mainMenu' refresh='content' tiddler='MainMenu'></div>
<div id='sidebar'>
<div id='sidebarOptions' refresh='content' tiddler='SideBarOptions'></div>
<div id='sidebarTabs' refresh='content' force='true' tiddler='SideBarTabs'></div>
</div>
<div id='displayArea'>
<div id='messageArea'></div>
<div id='tiddlerDisplay'></div>
</div>
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<div class='toolbar' macro='toolbar [[ToolbarCommands::ViewToolbar]]'></div>
<div class='title' macro='view title'></div>
<div class='subtitle'><span macro='view modifier link'></span>, <span macro='view modified date'></span> (<span macro='message views.wikified.createdPrompt'></span> <span macro='view created date'></span>)</div>
<div class='tagging' macro='tagging'></div>
<div class='tagged' macro='tags'></div>
<div class='viewer' macro='view text wikified'></div>
<div class='tagClear'></div>
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<div class='toolbar' macro='toolbar [[ToolbarCommands::EditToolbar]]'></div>
<div class='title' macro='view title'></div>
<div class='editor' macro='edit title'></div>
<div macro='annotations'></div>
<div class='editor' macro='edit text'></div>
<div class='editor' macro='edit tags'></div><div class='editorFooter'><span macro='message views.editor.tagPrompt'></span><span macro='tagChooser excludeLists'></span></div>
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To get started with this blank [[TiddlyWiki]], you'll need to modify the following tiddlers:
* [[SiteTitle]] & [[SiteSubtitle]]: The title and subtitle of the site, as shown above (after saving, they will also appear in the browser title bar)
* [[MainMenu]]: The menu (usually on the left)
* [[DefaultTiddlers]]: Contains the names of the tiddlers that you want to appear when the TiddlyWiki is opened
You'll also need to enter your username for signing your edits: <<option txtUserName>>
These [[InterfaceOptions]] for customising [[TiddlyWiki]] are saved in your browser

Your username for signing your edits. Write it as a [[WikiWord]] (eg [[JoeBloggs]])

<<option txtUserName>>
<<option chkSaveBackups>> [[SaveBackups]]
<<option chkAutoSave>> [[AutoSave]]
<<option chkRegExpSearch>> [[RegExpSearch]]
<<option chkCaseSensitiveSearch>> [[CaseSensitiveSearch]]
<<option chkAnimate>> [[EnableAnimations]]

----
Also see [[AdvancedOptions]]
<<importTiddlers>>
Already I'm distracted, and there doesn't seem to be any help for it. Agency is a concept which, in English (so far as I know, all the Indo-European languages) typically determines the SUBJECT of the sentence/verb. Irritatingly, despite studying linguistics, this is still not at all clear to me. What is clear to me though is that Chinese didn't always require the agent to be in the subject, although Chinese may be changing in that regard. But maybe the concept of SUBJECT in Chinese is not entirely the same as SUBJECT in English?

Clearly agency is bound up with cause-and-effect and philosophy seems to be interested in cause-and-effect as well; at least sometimes. And language is cause-and-effect sensitive as well.
Andrew Webb. X is for a friend.
So, from Carnap: T is the set of theoretical propositions {t~~1~~,~~2~~,...}, O is the set of observable propositions {o~~1~~,o~~2~~,...}, C is the set of correspondence propositions {c~~1~~,c~~2~~,...} which relates T and O. Then TC(t~~1~~...t~~n~~,o~~1~~...o~~m~~) is an empirical theory.

The nest issue is to distinguish analytic from synthetic components of the theory. /%why?%/

From Ramsey, replace t~~n~~ with x~~n~~, a "variable" /%?an experimentally verifiable result%/ which can be quantified, then a factual account of a theory is given by showing &exist;X for T. This gives us ^^R^^TC 

Carnap then seeks to impose 3 other criteria:

##The factual component F~~T~~ must be observationally equivalent to the original theory  /%? Why is the notation F~~T~~ and not T~~F~~ ? %/
##The analytic content A~~T~~ must be "observationally uninformative" 
##The combination of the factual component and analytic component must be logically equivalent to the original theory TC i.e. F~~T~~ + A~~T~~ &equiv; TC (I assume that F~~T~~ + A~~T~~ &equiv; ^^R^^TC trivially, although it's not explicitly spelled out by [[my source article|http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carnap-Ramsey_sentences]]

1.) is OK. (The transformation didn't impact the observational components of the the theory)
2.) is a problem, because the analytic content includes relations such as "is bigger than" which //''is''// observationally informative.
3.) is apparently violated because A~~T~~ doesn't follow from F~~T~~  /% but it's not clear to me why it should %/

Carnap solved this problem /% why was it a problem precisely %/ by making the statements conditional. So, ''IF'' there exists some relations that satisfies TC(x~~1~~...x~~n~~,o~~1~~...o~~n~~), then those relations will satisfy TC(t~~1~~...T~~n~~,o~~1~~...~~o~~n); in more dense notation ^^R^^TC &rarr; TC. This means that TC is now observationally uninformative, so it acts as a valid A~~T~~. /% looks suspiciously like sleight of hand %/ Now apparently we can take care of 3.) by saying, given A^^T^^, infer an F^^T^^ &rarr; A^^T^^. From which it follows, likewise apparently, that A^^T^^ &cup; F^^T^^ &rArr; TC.

@@color:red; I'm not actually very happy with this. I've pulled it from Wikipedia, but I'm not entirely convinced by the article. It contians the sorts of small discrepancies that are very nerve-wracking to the ignorant. For example, why use the operators "+" and "&cup;" for the c.) requirement in different places? Is there a difference, or not? If not, OK, but if there is, how does  F^^T^^ &cup; A^^T^^ &rArr; T satisfy the original requirement? Also, if TC is A^^T^^, which apparently it is after the "conditionalising" operation, then it's trivial to say that anything &cup; A^^T^^ is equivalent to TC. Isn't this just X &cup; TC &equiv; TC?  

OK, perhaps it works like this: ...no I haven't quite got it yet.@@
Amongst other things, a hard core logical positivist. See also [[Carnap-Ramsay sentences]] for a description of what a legitimate empirical theory might be.
/***
|Name:|CloseOnCancelPlugin|
|Description:|Closes the tiddler if you click new tiddler then cancel. Default behaviour is to leave it open|
|Version:|3.0.1 ($Rev: 3861 $)|
|Date:|$Date: 2008-03-08 10:53:09 +1000 (Sat, 08 Mar 2008) $|
|Source:|http://mptw.tiddlyspot.com/#CloseOnCancelPlugin|
|Author:|Simon Baird <simon.baird@gmail.com>|
|License:|http://mptw.tiddlyspot.com/#TheBSDLicense|
***/
//{{{
merge(config.commands.cancelTiddler,{

	handler_mptw_orig_closeUnsaved: config.commands.cancelTiddler.handler,

	handler: function(event,src,title) {
		this.handler_mptw_orig_closeUnsaved(event,src,title);
		if (!story.isDirty(title) && !store.tiddlerExists(title) && !store.isShadowTiddler(title))
			story.closeTiddler(title,true);
		return false;
	}

});

//}}}

I've littered comments options around in a couple of areas/topics where I think they might be useful; but you can use this one too if something strikes you.

<<comments>>
/*
  TiddlyWiki Comments Plugin - Online demo at http://tiddlyguv.org/CommentsPlugin.html

  TODO:
  - Support Cascade comment delete when the top-level tiddler is deleted
  - Support more than one < <comments> > per tiddler. This will probably entail creating an invisible root tiddler to
    hold all the comments for a macro together. The user will need to provide an ID for this tiddler.
  - Don't use global "macro" var (use "macro" param a la jquery)
  - Sort by tiddler title or duration

*/

/***
|Name|CommentsPlugin|
|Description|Macro for nested comments, where each comment is a separate tiddler.|
|Source|http://tiddlyguv.org/CommentsPlugin.html#CommentsPlugin|
|Documentation|http://tiddlyguv.org/CommentsPlugin.html#CommentsPluginInfo|
|Version|0.1|
|Author|Michael Mahemoff, Osmosoft|
|''License:''|[[BSD open source license]]|
|~CoreVersion|2.2|
***/

/*{{{*/
if(!version.extensions.CommentsPlugin) {

  version.extensions.CommentsPlugin = {installed:true};

  (function(plugin) {

  var cmacro = config.macros.comments = {



init: function() {
  var stylesheet = store.getTiddlerText(tiddler.title + "##StyleSheet");
  if (stylesheet) { // check necessary because it happens more than once for some reason
    config.shadowTiddlers["StyleSheetCommentsPlugin"] = stylesheet;
    store.addNotification("StyleSheetCommentsPlugin", refreshStyles);
  }
  if (!version.extensions.CommentsPlugin.retainViewTemplate) cmacro.enhanceViewTemplate();
},

enhanceViewTemplate: function() {
  var template = config.shadowTiddlers.ViewTemplate;
  if ((/commentBreadcrumb/g).test(template)) return; // already enhanced
  var TITLE_DIV = "<div class='title' macro='view title'></div>";
  var commentsDiv = "<div class='commentBreadcrumb' macro='commentBreadcrumb'></div>";
  config.shadowTiddlers.ViewTemplate = template.replace(TITLE_DIV,commentsDiv+"\n"+TITLE_DIV);
},

handler: function(place,macroName,params,wikifier,paramString,tiddler) {
  var macroParams = paramString.parseParams();
  var tiddlerParam = getParam(macroParams, "tiddler");
  tiddler = tiddlerParam ? store.getTiddler(tiddlerParam) : tiddler;
  if (!tiddler || !store.getTiddler(tiddler.title)) return;
  cmacro.buildCommentsArea(tiddler, place, macroParams);
  // cmacro.refreshCommentsFromRoot(story.getTiddler(tiddler.title).commentsEl, tiddler, macroParams);
  cmacro.refreshCommentsFromRoot(place.commentsEl, tiddler, macroParams);
},


buildCommentsArea: function(rootTiddler, place, macroParams) {
  var commentsArea = createTiddlyElement(place, "div", null, "comments");
  var heading = getParam(macroParams, "heading");
  if (heading) createTiddlyElement(commentsArea, "h1", null, null, heading);
  var comments = createTiddlyElement(commentsArea, "div", null, "");
  place.commentsEl = comments;

  if (cmacro.editable(macroParams)) {
    var newCommentArea = createTiddlyElement(commentsArea, "div", null, "newCommentArea", "New comment:");
    cmacro.forceLoginIfRequired(params, newCommentArea, function() {
      var newCommentEl = cmacro.makeTextArea(newCommentArea, macroParams);
      // var addComment = createTiddlyElement(newCommentArea, "button", null, "addComment button", "Add Comment");
      var addComment = createTiddlyButton(newCommentArea, "Add Comment", null, function() {
        var comment = cmacro.createComment(newCommentEl.value, rootTiddler, macroParams); 
        newCommentEl.value = "";
        cmacro.refreshCommentsFromRoot(comments, rootTiddler, macroParams);
      }, "addComment button");
    });
  }

},


makeTextArea: function(container, macroParams) {
  var textArea = createTiddlyElement(container, "textarea");
  textArea.rows = getParam(macroParams, "textRows") || 4;
  textArea.cols = getParam(macroParams, "textCols") || 20;
  textArea.value = getParam(macroParams, "text") || "";
  return textArea;
},

refreshCommentsFromRoot: function(rootCommentsEl, rootTiddler, macroParams) {
  cmacro.treeifyComments(rootTiddler);
  cmacro.refreshComments(rootCommentsEl, rootTiddler, macroParams);
},

refreshComments: function(daddyCommentsEl, tiddler, macroParams) {

  var commentsEl;
  if (tiddler.fields.daddy) {
    var commentEl = cmacro.buildCommentEl(daddyCommentsEl, tiddler, macroParams);
    daddyCommentsEl.appendChild(commentEl);
    commentsEl = commentEl.commentsEl;
  } else { // root element
    removeChildren(daddyCommentsEl);
    // refreshedEl = story.getTiddler(tiddler.title);
    commentsEl = daddyCommentsEl;
  }

  for (var child = tiddler.firstChild; child; child = child.next) {
     cmacro.refreshComments(commentsEl, child, macroParams);
  }

},

// This has become more complex due to "confused comments" - multiple comments
// pointing back to the same daddy (which implies they all think they're the first
// child) or a single "2nd-last" sibling (which implies they all think they're the
// last sibling). This happens in the typical "atomic transaction 101" scenario -
// user A opens wiki, user B opens wiki, one of the users submits a comment, 
// the other user submits a comment.
//
// Normally, each comment says "make my daddy's first child be me", or "make my prev
// sibling's next sibling be me". That's how the tree gets built. But to deal
// with confused comments, we now have to check if daddy/prev is already pointing
// to something. If so, we will have to walk through the list to find the right place
// for the new item.
//
// We begin by sorting by date; if we can assume we are walking through the comments by date, 
// the confused comments will appear in the right order.
treeifyComments: function(rootTiddler) {

  // First, clear the tree data
  // We sort the comments to ensure "confused" comments
  var comments = cmacro.findCommentsFromRoot(rootTiddler).sort(function(a,b) {
    return a.modified > b.modified;
  });
  var nodes=comments.concat(rootTiddler);
  for (var i=0; i<nodes.length; i++) {
    delete nodes[i]["firstChild"];
    delete nodes[i]["next"];
  }

  // Now walk through each comment
  cmacro.forEach(comments, function(comment) {
    var prev = comment.fields.prev;
    var daddy = comment.fields.daddy;
    if (prev) {
      var prevTiddler = store.getTiddler(prev);
      if (prevTiddler.next) {
        for (var lastChild=prevTiddler.next; lastChild.next; lastChild=lastChild.next)
          ;
        lastChild.next = comment;
      // } else {
      } else {
        prevTiddler.next = comment;
      }
    } else {
      var daddyTiddler = store.getTiddler(daddy);
      if (daddyTiddler.firstChild) {
        for (var lastChild=daddyTiddler.firstChild; lastChild.next; lastChild=lastChild.next)
          ;
        lastChild.next = comment;
      } else {
        daddyTiddler.firstChild = comment;
      }
    }
  });
  for (var i=0; i<comments.length; i++) {
    var c=comments.sort()[i];
  }

},

logComments: function(comments) {
  for (var i=0; i<comments.length; i++) {
    var comment = comments[i];
  }
},

findCommentsFromRoot: function(rootTiddler) {
  var comments = [];
  store.forEachTiddler(function(title,tiddler) {
    if (tiddler.fields.root==rootTiddler.title) comments.push(tiddler);
  });
  return comments;
},

findChildren: function(daddyTiddler) {
  var comments = [];
  store.forEachTiddler(function(title,tiddler) {
    if (tiddler.fields.daddy==daddyTiddler.title) comments.push(tiddler);
  });
  return comments;
},

buildCommentEl: function(daddyCommentsEl, comment, macroParams) {

  // COMMENT ELEMENT
  var commentEl = document.createElement("div");
  commentEl.className = "comment";

  // HEADING <- METAINFO AND DELETE
  var headingEl = createTiddlyElement(commentEl, "div", null, "heading");

  var metaInfoEl = createTiddlyElement(headingEl, "div", null, "commentTitle",  comment.modifier + '@' + comment.modified.formatString(getParam(macroParams,"dateFormat") || "DDD, MMM DDth, YYYY hh12:0mm:0ss am"));
  metaInfoEl.onclick = function() { 
    // story.closeAllTiddlers();
    story.displayTiddler("top", comment.title, null, true);
    // document.location.hash = "#" + comment.title;
  };

  var deleteEl = createTiddlyElement(headingEl, "div", null, "deleteComment", "X");
  deleteEl.onclick = function() {
    if (true || confirm("Delete this comment and all of its replies?")) {
      cmacro.deleteTiddlerAndDescendents(comment);
      commentEl.parentNode.removeChild(commentEl);
    }
  };

  // TEXT
  commentEl.text = createTiddlyElement(commentEl, "div", null, "commentText");
  wikify(comment.text, commentEl.text);

  // REPLY LINK
  if (cmacro.editable(macroParams)) {
    var replyLinkZone = createTiddlyElement(commentEl, "div", null, "replyLinkZone");
    var replyLink = createTiddlyElement(replyLinkZone, "span", null, "replyLink", "reply to this comment");
    replyLink.onclick = function() { cmacro.openReplyLink(comment, commentEl, replyLink, macroParams); };
  }

  // var clearance = createTiddlyElement(commentEl, "clearance", null, "clearance");
  // clearance.innerHTML = "&nbsp;";

  // COMMENTS AREA
  commentEl.commentsEl = createTiddlyElement(commentEl, "div", null, "comments");

  // RETURN
  return commentEl;

},

openReplyLink: function(commentTiddler, commentEl, replyLink, macroParams) {
  if (commentEl.replyEl) {
    commentEl.replyEl.style.display = "block";
    return;
  }

  commentEl.replyEl = document.createElement("div");
  commentEl.replyEl.className = "reply";

  replyLink.style.display = "none";
  var newReplyHeading = createTiddlyElement(commentEl.replyEl, "div", null, "newReply");
  createTiddlyElement(newReplyHeading, "div", null, "newReplyLabel", "New Reply:");
  var closeNewReply = createTiddlyElement(newReplyHeading, "div", null, "closeNewReply", "close");
  closeNewReply.onclick = function() {
    commentEl.replyEl.style.display = "none";
    replyLink.style.display = "block";
  };

  cmacro.forceLoginIfRequired(params, commentEl.replyEl, function() {
    var replyText =  cmacro.makeTextArea(commentEl.replyEl, macroParams);
      var submitReply = createTiddlyButton(commentEl.replyEl, "Reply", null, function() {
        var newComment = cmacro.createComment(replyText.value, commentTiddler, macroParams);
        replyText.value = "";
        closeNewReply.onclick();
        cmacro.refreshComments(commentEl.commentsEl, newComment, macroParams);
      });
  });

  commentEl.insertBefore(commentEl.replyEl, commentEl.commentsEl);
},


createComment: function(text, daddy, macroParams) {

  var rootTitle = daddy.fields.root ? daddy.fields.root : daddy.title;
    // second case is the situation where daddy *is* root
  var newComment = cmacro.createCommentTiddler(macroParams, rootTitle);
  var fieldsParam = getParam(macroParams, "fields") || "";
  var fields = fieldsParam.decodeHashMap();
  var inheritedFields = (getParam(macroParams, "inheritedFields") || "").split(",");
  cmacro.forEach(inheritedFields, function(field) {
    if (field!="") fields[field] = daddy.fields[field];
  });
  var tagsParam = getParam(macroParams, "tags") || "comment";
  var now = new Date();
  newComment.set(null, text, config.options.txtUserName, now, tagsParam.split(","), now, fields);

  var youngestSibling = cmacro.findYoungestChild(daddy)
  if (youngestSibling) newComment.fields.prev = youngestSibling.title;
  newComment.fields.daddy = daddy.title;
  newComment.fields.root = rootTitle;

  cmacro.saveTiddler(newComment.title);
  autoSaveChanges(false);
  return newComment;
},

findYoungestChild: function(daddy) {

  var siblingCount = 0;
  var elderSiblings = cmacro.mapize(cmacro.selectTiddlers(function(tiddler) {
    isChild = (tiddler.fields.daddy==daddy.title);
    if (isChild) siblingCount++;
    return isChild;
  }));
  if (!siblingCount) return null;

  // Find the only sibling that doesn't have a prev pointing at it
  var youngestSiblings = cmacro.clone(elderSiblings) // as a starting point
  cmacro.forEachMap(elderSiblings, function(tiddler) {
    delete youngestSiblings[tiddler.fields.prev];
  });

  for (title in youngestSiblings) { return youngestSiblings[title]; }

},

// The recursive delete is run by a separate function (nested inside
// this one, for encapsulation purposes).
deleteTiddlerAndDescendents: function(tiddler) {

  function deleteRecursively(tiddler) {
    for (var child = tiddler.firstChild; child; child = child.next) {
      deleteRecursively(child);
    }
    store.removeTiddler(tiddler.title);
  }

  cmacro.treeifyComments(store.getTiddler(tiddler.fields.root));

  // save some info prior to deleting
  var prev = tiddler.fields.prev;
  var next = tiddler.next;

  deleteRecursively(tiddler);

  // used saved info
  if (next) {
    next.fields.prev = prev;
    cmacro.saveTiddler(next.title);
  }

  autoSaveChanges(false);

},


forEach: function(list, visitor) { for (var i=0; i<list.length; i++) visitor(list[i]); },
forEachMap: function(map, visitor) { for (var key in map) visitor(map[key]); },
select: function(list, selector) { 
  var selection = [];
  cmacro.forEach(list, function(currentItem) {
    if (selector(currentItem)) { selection.push(currentItem); }
  });
  return selection;
},
selectTiddlers: function(selector) { 
  var tiddlers = [];
  store.forEachTiddler(function(title, tiddler) {
    var wanted = selector(tiddler);
    if (wanted) tiddlers.push(tiddler);
  });
  return tiddlers;
},
map: function(list, mapper) { 
  var mapped = [];
  cmacro.forEach(list, function(currentItem) { mapped.push(mapper(currentItem)); });
  return mapped;
},
remove: function(list, unwantedItem) {
  return cmacro.select(list,
        function(currentItem) { return currentItem!=unwantedItem; });
},
mapize: function(tiddlerList) {
  var map = {};
  cmacro.forEach(tiddlerList, function(tiddler) { map[tiddler.title] = tiddler; });
  return map;
},
clone: function(map) { return merge({}, map); },


editable: function(params) {
  var editable = getParam(params, "editable");
  return (!editable || editable!="false");
},

needsLogin: function(params) {
  var loginCheck = getParam(params, "loginCheck");
  return loginCheck && !window[loginCheck]();
},

forceLoginIfRequired: function(params, loginPromptContainer, authenticatedBlock) {
  if (cmacro.needsLogin(params)) wikify("<<"+getParam(macroParams, "loginPrompt")+">>", loginPromptContainer);
  else authenticatedBlock();
},


mergeReadOnly: function(first, second) {
  var merged = {};
  for (var field in first) { merged[field] = first[field]; }
  for (var field in second) { merged[field] = second[field]; }
  return merged;
},

// callers may replace this with their own ID generation algorithm
createCommentTiddler: function(macroParams, rootTitle) {
  // var titleFormat = getParam(macroParams, "titleFormat") || "%root%Comment"; 
  var prefix = rootTitle+"Comment"; // was "_comment"
  if (!store.createGuidTiddler) return store.createTiddler(prefix+((new Date()).getTime()));
  return store.createGuidTiddler(prefix);
},
saveTiddler: function(tiddler) {
  var tiddler = (typeof(tiddler)=="string") ? store.getTiddler(tiddler) : tiddler; 
  store.saveTiddler(tiddler.title, tiddler.title, tiddler.text, tiddler.modifier, tiddler.modified, tiddler.tags, cmacro.mergeReadOnly(config.defaultCustomFields, tiddler.fields), false, tiddler.created)
},
log: function() { if (console && console.firebug) console.log.apply(console, arguments); },
assert: function() { if (console && console.firebug) console.assert.apply(console, arguments); },


copyFields: function(fromTiddler, toTiddler, field1, field2, fieldN) {
  for (var i=2; i<arguments.length; i++) {
    fieldKey = arguments[i];
    if (fromTiddler.fields[fieldKey]) toTiddler.fields[fieldKey] = fromTiddler.fields[fieldKey];
  }
}
}

config.macros.commentsCount = {
  handler: function(place,macroName,params,wikifier,paramString,tiddler) {
    var count = 0;
    if (tiddler && store.getTiddler(tiddler.title)) {
      var rootTiddler = paramString.length ? paramString : tiddler.title;
      count = config.macros.comments.findCommentsFromRoot(store.getTiddler(rootTiddler)).length;
    }
    createTiddlyText(place, count);
  }
},

config.macros.commentBreadcrumb = {
  handler: function(place,macroName,params,wikifier,paramString,tiddler) {
    if (!tiddler.fields.root) return;
    var rootLink = createTiddlyElement(place, "span", null, null);
    createTiddlyLink(rootLink, tiddler.fields.root, true);

    var rootIsParent = tiddler.fields.daddy==tiddler.fields.root;
    var rootIsGrandparent = (store.getTiddler(tiddler.fields.daddy)).fields.daddy==tiddler.fields.root;

    if (!rootIsParent) {
      if (!rootIsGrandparent) createTiddlyElement(place, "span", null, null, " > ... ");
      createTiddlyElement(place, "span", null, null, " > ");
      var daddyLink = createTiddlyElement(place, "span", null, null);
      createTiddlyLink(daddyLink, tiddler.fields.daddy, true);
    }

    createTiddlyElement(place, "span", null, null, " > ");

    // place.appendChild(createTiddlyLink(tiddler.fields.root));
  }
}

config.macros.tiddlyWebComments = {};
config.macros.tiddlyWebComments.handler =
  function(place,macroName,params,wikifier,paramString,tiddler) {
    paramString = "fields:'server.workspace:bags/comments' inheritedFields:'server.host,server.type'";
    config.macros.comments.handler(place,macroName,params,wikifier, paramString,tiddler);
  };

function log() { if (console && console.firebug) console.log.apply(console, arguments); }

})(version.extensions.CommentsPlugin);


/***
!StyleSheet

.comments h1 { margin-bottom: 0; padding-bottom: 0; }
.comments { padding: 0; }
.comment .comments { margin-left: 1em; }

.comment { padding: 0; margin: 1em 0 0; }
.comment .comment { margin 0; }
.comment .toolbar .button { border: 0; color: #9a4; }
.comment .heading { background: [[ColorPalette::PrimaryPale]]; color: [[ColorPalette::PrimaryDark]]; border-bottom: 1px solid [[ColorPalette::PrimaryLight]]; border-right: 1px solid [[ColorPalette::PrimaryLight]]; padding: 0.5em; height: 1.3em; }
.commentTitle { float: left; }
.commentTitle:hover { text-decoration: underline; cursor: pointer; }
.commentText { clear: both; padding: 1em 1em; }
.deleteComment { float: right; cursor: pointer; text-decoration:underline; color:[[ColorPalette::SecondaryDark]]; padding-right: 0.3em; }
.comment .reply { margin-left: 1em; }
.comment .replyLink { color:[[ColorPalette::SecondaryDark]]; font-style: italic; 
                     cursor: pointer; text-decoration: underline; margin: 0 1em; }
.comment .created { }
.comment .newReply { color:[[ColorPalette::SecondaryDark]]; margin-top: 1em; }
.newReplyLabel { float: left; }
.closeNewReply { cursor: pointer; float: right; text-decoration: underline; }
.comments textarea { width: 100%; padding: 0.3em; margin-bottom: 0.6em; }
.newCommentArea { margin-top: 0.5em; }

.clearance { clear: both; }


!(end of StyleSheet)

***/

  config.macros.comments.init();

} // end of 'install only once'
/*}}}*/

// function log() { if (console && console.firebug) console.log.apply(console, arguments); }
[[certainty]] [[Well, hi]] [[People]] 
/***
|Name:|ExtentTagButtonPlugin|
|Description:|Adds a New tiddler button in the tag drop down|
|Version:|3.2 ($Rev: 3861 $)|
|Date:|$Date: 2008-03-08 10:53:09 +1000 (Sat, 08 Mar 2008) $|
|Source:|http://mptw.tiddlyspot.com/#ExtendTagButtonPlugin|
|Author:|Simon Baird <simon.baird@gmail.com>|
|License|http://mptw.tiddlyspot.com/#TheBSDLicense|
***/
//{{{

window.onClickTag_mptw_orig = window.onClickTag;
window.onClickTag = function(e) {
	window.onClickTag_mptw_orig.apply(this,arguments);
	var tag = this.getAttribute("tag");
	var title = this.getAttribute("tiddler");
	// Thanks Saq, you're a genius :)
	var popup = Popup.stack[Popup.stack.length-1].popup;
	createTiddlyElement(createTiddlyElement(popup,"li",null,"listBreak"),"div");
	wikify("<<newTiddler label:'New tiddler' tag:'"+tag+"'>>",createTiddlyElement(popup,"li"));
	return false;
}

//}}}

[[A very interesting guy|http://plato.stanford.edu/entries/gassendi/]] "But among the savants of the early seventeenth century, only Gassendi, whose awareness of empiricism's roots and implications is evident across his intellectual pursuits, integrates philosophy and science on what he believes to be strictly empiricist grounds. This integration is a natural consequence of his suggestion that we gain all knowledge—outside of the theological—from the senses.

A range of equally modern views follow from his proposed empiricist foundations for the new science and its methods. He suggests a probabilist notion of what counts as warranted empirical belief, and insists that we may license beliefs about the sub- and supra-perceivable but only if they are well-grounded in our beliefs about the perceptually given. Further, he devises rules for accepting or rejecting hypotheses, and guidelines for directing empirical discoveries and our judgments of the same, where all such claims are subject to the test of evidence from experiment or observation. It is far from true that all, or even most, of his own claims about the nature of the physical world meet this test, but the modernity of Gassendi's philosophy and science lies in his proposal that this is a goal to be set, altogether."

His attack on the //cogito// is, to my mind, subtle. That there is thinking, is not proof that there is a "bounded", or particular thinker. Assigning that perceived cognitive activity to an individual is simply assuming what was to be tested, i.e. that there is an individual who thinks. As in, I guess, the detection of water in a river does not demonstrate the existence of buckets. (The notion of agent-independent cognitive activity is cognate with the Averoist panpsychic heresy...not my own work)
Steven J. Hawking. Another scientist who can't think.
What did he say before Marx got hold of him?
/***
|Name:|HideWhenPlugin|
|Description:|Allows conditional inclusion/exclusion in templates|
|Version:|3.1 ($Rev: 3919 $)|
|Date:|$Date: 2008-03-13 02:03:12 +1000 (Thu, 13 Mar 2008) $|
|Source:|http://mptw.tiddlyspot.com/#HideWhenPlugin|
|Author:|Simon Baird <simon.baird@gmail.com>|
|License:|http://mptw.tiddlyspot.com/#TheBSDLicense|
For use in ViewTemplate and EditTemplate. Example usage:
{{{<div macro="showWhenTagged Task">[[TaskToolbar]]</div>}}}
{{{<div macro="showWhen tiddler.modifier == 'BartSimpson'"><img src="bart.gif"/></div>}}}
***/
//{{{

window.hideWhenLastTest = false;

window.removeElementWhen = function(test,place) {
	window.hideWhenLastTest = test;
	if (test) {
		removeChildren(place);
		place.parentNode.removeChild(place);
	}
};


merge(config.macros,{

	hideWhen: { handler: function(place,macroName,params,wikifier,paramString,tiddler) {
		removeElementWhen( eval(paramString), place);
	}},

	showWhen: { handler: function(place,macroName,params,wikifier,paramString,tiddler) {
		removeElementWhen( !eval(paramString), place);
	}},

	hideWhenTagged: { handler: function (place,macroName,params,wikifier,paramString,tiddler) {
		removeElementWhen( tiddler.tags.containsAll(params), place);
	}},

	showWhenTagged: { handler: function (place,macroName,params,wikifier,paramString,tiddler) {
		removeElementWhen( !tiddler.tags.containsAll(params), place);
	}},

	hideWhenTaggedAny: { handler: function (place,macroName,params,wikifier,paramString,tiddler) {
		removeElementWhen( tiddler.tags.containsAny(params), place);
	}},

	showWhenTaggedAny: { handler: function (place,macroName,params,wikifier,paramString,tiddler) {
		removeElementWhen( !tiddler.tags.containsAny(params), place);
	}},

	hideWhenTaggedAll: { handler: function (place,macroName,params,wikifier,paramString,tiddler) {
		removeElementWhen( tiddler.tags.containsAll(params), place);
	}},

	showWhenTaggedAll: { handler: function (place,macroName,params,wikifier,paramString,tiddler) {
		removeElementWhen( !tiddler.tags.containsAll(params), place);
	}},

	hideWhenExists: { handler: function(place,macroName,params,wikifier,paramString,tiddler) {
		removeElementWhen( store.tiddlerExists(params[0]) || store.isShadowTiddler(params[0]), place);
	}},

	showWhenExists: { handler: function(place,macroName,params,wikifier,paramString,tiddler) {
		removeElementWhen( !(store.tiddlerExists(params[0]) || store.isShadowTiddler(params[0])), place);
	}},

	hideWhenTitleIs: { handler: function(place,macroName,params,wikifier,paramString,tiddler) {
		removeElementWhen( tiddler.title == params[0], place);
	}},

	showWhenTitleIs: { handler: function(place,macroName,params,wikifier,paramString,tiddler) {
		removeElementWhen( tiddler.title != params[0], place);
	}},

	'else': { handler: function(place,macroName,params,wikifier,paramString,tiddler) {
		removeElementWhen( !window.hideWhenLastTest, place);
	}}

});

//}}}

Claims that it's impossible to doubt existence, because that would constitute a sentence like "I'm wrong in thinking I exist, but I exist sufficiently to be wrong".
David Hume, high priest of common sense. Said, in response to Descartes' claims that God must exist because it was impossible to conceive of a world without him, that it was no trouble to conceive of a world without God. Pointed out that the problem with induction was that the past was not, in fact, any guarantee of the future. Induction lies at the heart of science, and this problem won't go away. It is also fair to note that it's not entirely clear how important the problem is.
* Writing about the body, as perceived to be separate from the self. The flash in the physio's office of a skeleton independent of the self; and the temporary (at least) ability to reconstruct the weirdness of that feeling, a little like the "inside out" hallucination.

* How can one write while retaining awareness of the inadequacy of language, that every structure is at best controlled only by an as yet incomplete (what about the future) contestation? Nothing can be //said// - only propositions can be made. 
__Day 3__ I nearly forgot to expand what I meant by "infinite chain of warrants" - and after this I have to get back to more pressing work. Let's say, I have been studying the spiders in my back garden over a number of years, and I have made some hypotheses about spider behaviour, which despite diligent attempts, I have not been able to contradict and which appear to be statistically very reliable. Do I have knowledge about spiders?

I have a belief. It's true, in some respect - in fact, truth, like warranty, is not simple to explain and seems to overlap, potentially, in at least some situations, this to my mind being one of them. Conformance between observation and reality (but how is reality unobserved? Perhaps that should be, conformance between prediction & reality) seems to warrant truth. That last proposition - how do I know that? Where's the warrant for the truth of my belief that P(conformance between .... truth)? That's the start of the infinite chain; a continuing series of assumptions required to provide foundation for warrant (or truth). At some point that has to stop: I can look outside and say, THEY provide the warrant, and absolve myself of the responsibility, or I can take a personal position that at some point in this chain, some P is self-warranting. People do both; the [[social construction of knowledge]] means, in one sense, that the warrant is socially manufactured. 

Perhaps my belief about spiders isn't knowledge until socially sanctioned; it remains belief because no warrant I supply myself can ever be free of self-warranty. There are two self-warranties here; the warranty-it//self// //self//-warranty and the my//self// //self//-warranty. Even though the second might be as sound (or unsound) as the ''arbitrary'' socially sanctioned warranty, it suffers from the pollution of the //self//. Would that be as true in a language that has different words for these two different selfs?

__Day ''n''__ Bugger, now I can't remember what I was thinking when I wrote the Day 3 entry. And it's not clear. Well, it was clear when I wrote it, or I would have provided more details. How to write against one's future stupidity? (Ahhh, maybe more details?) Let me see if I can reconstruct the thinking - I remember when my boast was that I knew nothing but I could make a "new" pronouncement on the same topic multiple times and through nothing other than coincidence that I was aware of, each pronouncement would be substantially similar. Knowledge as a kind of consistent performance: I find myself fading in & out of behaviourism - perhaps not surprising when I read Skinner at about 12. (Pelican imprint, I think; Collins Book Depot?)

Reconstruction: the "infinite chain of warrants" was the topic. And 1st response is to create a tiddler for this important concept.
/***
|Name:|InstantTimestampPlugin|
|Description:|A handy way to insert timestamps in your tiddler content|
|Version:|1.0.10 ($Rev: 3646 $)|
|Date:|$Date: 2008-02-27 02:34:38 +1000 (Wed, 27 Feb 2008) $|
|Source:|http://mptw.tiddlyspot.com/#InstantTimestampPlugin|
|Author:|Simon Baird <simon.baird@gmail.com>|
|License:|http://mptw.tiddlyspot.com/#TheBSDLicense|
!!Usage
If you enter {ts} in your tiddler content (without the spaces) it will be replaced with a timestamp when you save the tiddler. Full list of formats:
* {ts} or {t} -> timestamp
* {ds} or {d} -> datestamp
* !ts or !t at start of line -> !!timestamp
* !ds or !d at start of line -> !!datestamp
(I added the extra ! since that's how I like it. Remove it from translations below if required)
!!Notes
* Change the timeFormat and dateFormat below to suit your preference.
* See also http://mptw2.tiddlyspot.com/#AutoCorrectPlugin
* You could invent other translations and add them to the translations array below.
***/
//{{{

config.InstantTimestamp = {

	// adjust to suit
	timeFormat: 'DD/0MM/YY 0hh:0mm',
	dateFormat: 'DD/0MM/YY',

	translations: [
		[/^!ts?$/img,  "'!!{{ts{'+now.formatString(config.InstantTimestamp.timeFormat)+'}}}'"],
		[/^!ds?$/img,  "'!!{{ds{'+now.formatString(config.InstantTimestamp.dateFormat)+'}}}'"],

		// thanks Adapted Cat
		[/\{ts?\}(?!\}\})/ig,"'{{ts{'+now.formatString(config.InstantTimestamp.timeFormat)+'}}}'"],
		[/\{ds?\}(?!\}\})/ig,"'{{ds{'+now.formatString(config.InstantTimestamp.dateFormat)+'}}}'"]
		
	],

	excludeTags: [
		"noAutoCorrect",
		"noTimestamp",
		"html",
		"CSS",
		"css",
		"systemConfig",
		"systemConfigDisabled",
		"zsystemConfig",
		"Plugins",
		"Plugin",
		"plugins",
		"plugin",
		"javascript",
		"code",
		"systemTheme",
		"systemPalette"
	],

	excludeTiddlers: [
		"StyleSheet",
		"StyleSheetLayout",
		"StyleSheetColors",
		"StyleSheetPrint"
		// more?
	]

}; 

TiddlyWiki.prototype.saveTiddler_mptw_instanttimestamp = TiddlyWiki.prototype.saveTiddler;
TiddlyWiki.prototype.saveTiddler = function(title,newTitle,newBody,modifier,modified,tags,fields,clearChangeCount,created) {

	tags = tags ? tags : []; // just in case tags is null
	tags = (typeof(tags) == "string") ? tags.readBracketedList() : tags;
	var conf = config.InstantTimestamp;

	if ( !tags.containsAny(conf.excludeTags) && !conf.excludeTiddlers.contains(newTitle) ) {

		var now = new Date();
		var trans = conf.translations;
		for (var i=0;i<trans.length;i++) {
			newBody = newBody.replace(trans[i][0], eval(trans[i][1]));
		}
	}

	// TODO: use apply() instead of naming all args?
	return this.saveTiddler_mptw_instanttimestamp(title,newTitle,newBody,modifier,modified,tags,fields,clearChangeCount,created);
}

// you can override these in StyleSheet 
setStylesheet(".ts,.ds { font-style:italic; }","instantTimestampStyles");

//}}}

Sometimes described as the first existentialist. [[This internet|http://plato.stanford.edu/entries/kierkegaard/]] page provides a summary of a complex thinker, interested as much in the mechanisms of communication as the content.
Kleist is reputed to have said //"If all eyes were made of green glass, and if all that seems white was really green, who would be the wiser? Heinrich von Kleist (1777 - 1811)."// /%I haven't sourced this yet%/ (It's in a letter to his fiancée, and might be a paraphrase as well as a translation) , but I have been running exactly the same idea with "rose", as in "rose-coloured spectacles" for a long time, so I'm in sympathy with it. 

I can see no reason why this shouldn't apply to science as much as to philosophy.

Physiology determines the facts of the universe humans theorise. In a sense that's trivial, because [[surely|certainty]] everyone is engaged in a project to determine physiology-independent facts. So, for example, you might replace the named colours with their electromagnetic wavelengths.

|!English Name|!Approx. Wavelength(nm)|
|color:violet;Violet|text-align:center;400|
|color:indigo;Indigo| 445 |
|color:blue;Blue| 475 |
|color:green;Green| 510 |
|color:yellow;Yellow| 570 |
|color:orange;Orange| 590 |
|color:red;Red| 650 |
/% the spaces either side of the numbers are a shortcut to achieve the css text-align%/

But this doesn't solve any of Kleist's problems; it creates a set of definitions & labels, but the relationship between the labels here and the colours described by a person is one of (highly misleading) coincidence. It shouldn't be that hard to see that if the left hand side of the table, the colour names, is a purely physiological construct, so //might// the right hand side be. There is no guarantee that another physiology would describe electromagnetic radiation, nor that this putative other physiology would describe electromagnetic radiation in terms of wavelength. The inability of //our// physiology to think up such an account doesn't render it impossible. 
On coincidences?
/***
|Name:|LessBackupsPlugin|
|Description:|Intelligently limit the number of backup files you create|
|Version:|3.0.1 ($Rev: 2320 $)|
|Date:|$Date: 2007-06-18 22:37:46 +1000 (Mon, 18 Jun 2007) $|
|Source:|http://mptw.tiddlyspot.com/#LessBackupsPlugin|
|Author:|Simon Baird|
|Email:|simon.baird@gmail.com|
|License:|http://mptw.tiddlyspot.com/#TheBSDLicense|
!!Description
You end up with just backup one per year, per month, per weekday, per hour, minute, and second.  So total number won't exceed about 200 or so. Can be reduced by commenting out the seconds/minutes/hours line from modes array
!!Notes
Works in IE and Firefox only.  Algorithm by Daniel Baird. IE specific code by by Saq Imtiaz.
***/
//{{{

var MINS  = 60 * 1000;
var HOURS = 60 * MINS;
var DAYS  = 24 * HOURS;

if (!config.lessBackups) {
	config.lessBackups = {
		// comment out the ones you don't want or set config.lessBackups.modes in your 'tweaks' plugin
		modes: [
			["YYYY",  365*DAYS], // one per year for ever
			["MMM",   31*DAYS],  // one per month
			["ddd",   7*DAYS],   // one per weekday
			//["d0DD",  1*DAYS],   // one per day of month
			["h0hh",  24*HOURS], // one per hour
			["m0mm",  1*HOURS],  // one per minute
			["s0ss",  1*MINS],   // one per second
			["latest",0]         // always keep last version. (leave this).
		]
	};
}

window.getSpecialBackupPath = function(backupPath) {

	var now = new Date();

	var modes = config.lessBackups.modes;

	for (var i=0;i<modes.length;i++) {

		// the filename we will try
		var specialBackupPath = backupPath.replace(/(\.)([0-9]+\.[0-9]+)(\.html)$/,
				'$1'+now.formatString(modes[i][0]).toLowerCase()+'$3')

		// open the file
		try {
			if (config.browser.isIE) {
				var fsobject = new ActiveXObject("Scripting.FileSystemObject")
				var fileExists  = fsobject.FileExists(specialBackupPath);
				if (fileExists) {
					var fileObject = fsobject.GetFile(specialBackupPath);
					var modDate = new Date(fileObject.DateLastModified).valueOf();
				}
			}
			else {
				netscape.security.PrivilegeManager.enablePrivilege("UniversalXPConnect");
				var file = Components.classes["@mozilla.org/file/local;1"].createInstance(Components.interfaces.nsILocalFile);
				file.initWithPath(specialBackupPath);
				var fileExists = file.exists();
				if (fileExists) {
					var modDate = file.lastModifiedTime;
				}
			}
		}
		catch(e) {
			// give up
			return backupPath;
		}

		// expiry is used to tell if it's an 'old' one. Eg, if the month is June and there is a
		// June file on disk that's more than an month old then it must be stale so overwrite
		// note that "latest" should be always written because the expiration period is zero (see above)
		var expiry = new Date(modDate + modes[i][1]);
		if (!fileExists || now > expiry)
			return specialBackupPath;
	}
}

// hijack the core function
window.getBackupPath_mptw_orig = window.getBackupPath;
window.getBackupPath = function(localPath) {
	return getSpecialBackupPath(getBackupPath_mptw_orig(localPath));
}

//}}}

Lichtenberg restates Gassendi's objection, i.e. that the proposition more correctly is stated as "there is thinking" or "it is thinking", where "there" and "it" are empty subjects.
/***
|''Name:''|LoadRemoteFileThroughProxy (previous LoadRemoteFileHijack)|
|''Description:''|When the TiddlyWiki file is located on the web (view over http) the content of [[SiteProxy]] tiddler is added in front of the file url. If [[SiteProxy]] does not exist "/proxy/" is added. |
|''Version:''|1.1.0|
|''Date:''|mar 17, 2007|
|''Source:''|http://tiddlywiki.bidix.info/#LoadRemoteFileHijack|
|''Author:''|BidiX (BidiX (at) bidix (dot) info)|
|''License:''|[[BSD open source license|http://tiddlywiki.bidix.info/#%5B%5BBSD%20open%20source%20license%5D%5D ]]|
|''~CoreVersion:''|2.2.0|
***/
//{{{
version.extensions.LoadRemoteFileThroughProxy = {
 major: 1, minor: 1, revision: 0, 
 date: new Date("mar 17, 2007"), 
 source: "http://tiddlywiki.bidix.info/#LoadRemoteFileThroughProxy"};

if (!window.bidix) window.bidix = {}; // bidix namespace
if (!bidix.core) bidix.core = {};

bidix.core.loadRemoteFile = loadRemoteFile;
loadRemoteFile = function(url,callback,params)
{
 if ((document.location.toString().substr(0,4) == "http") && (url.substr(0,4) == "http")){ 
 url = store.getTiddlerText("SiteProxy", "/proxy/") + url;
 }
 return bidix.core.loadRemoteFile(url,callback,params);
}
//}}}
MPTW is a distribution or edition of TiddlyWiki that includes a standard TiddlyWiki core packaged with some plugins designed to improve usability and provide a better way to organise your information. For more information see http://mptw.tiddlyspot.com/.
[[People]] [[Ideas]] [[Comments]] [[Program]] 
This harkens back to my vague knowledge of Prague School linguistics, and Halliday's functionalism: I'm pretty sceptical about claims that word-order affects meaning across languages; to give an example that springs to mind. Halliday claims that //[[theme]]// precedes //[[rheme]]//, cross-linguistically: but it's quite easy to show P~~L1~~ translated into P~~L2~~ in different word orders. Adjective-noun word order, for instance, to name one. For me, it's not plausible that there is a functional difference. It follows, if I am right, that comprehension occurs at some level higher than morpheme; as if there's some pre-processing that goes on to assemble chunks which then get pushed out elsewhere fore evaluation/response.

Of course, I could be wrong...

|!morpheme|!morpheme|!morpheme|
|Je|pense|donc|
|bgcolor:beige;//I//|bgcolor:beige;//think//|bgcolor:beige;//therefore//|
|cogit|o|ergo|
|bgcolor:beige;//think//|bgcolor:beige;//I//|bgcolor:beige;//therefore//|

If this were relevant, then perhaps a Latinist would incline to Nietzche's  opinion: "Thinking is happening, oh, it's me..", whereas the Francophones are siding with Kierkegaard: "''I'' am here, oh, and thinking too, as it happens...". 

Obviously it's not a //deep// effect, since irrespective of word order, Descartes defended an alternative view; Latin was NOT Nietzsche's native language; etc. etc.. I'm not suggesting that me being wrong entails that there is an absolute binding semantic of outcome order; what I would suggest is that it is possible - well, within the bounds of plausibility - that there might be a biassing affect on initial response which might in turn flow through to an evident impact n a sufficiently large population. Not everyone, after all, is going to analyse the statement, even though this one invites analysis. Despite the invitation though, there will still be reflexive responses.  
Name: MptwBlack
Background: #000
Foreground: #fff
PrimaryPale: #333
PrimaryLight: #555
PrimaryMid: #888
PrimaryDark: #aaa
SecondaryPale: #111
SecondaryLight: #222
SecondaryMid: #555
SecondaryDark: #888
TertiaryPale: #222
TertiaryLight: #666
TertiaryMid: #888
TertiaryDark: #aaa
Error: #300

Name: MptwBlue
Background: #fff
Foreground: #000
PrimaryPale: #cdf
PrimaryLight: #57c
PrimaryMid: #114
PrimaryDark: #012
SecondaryPale: #ffc
SecondaryLight: #fe8
SecondaryMid: #db4
SecondaryDark: #841
TertiaryPale: #eee
TertiaryLight: #ccc
TertiaryMid: #999
TertiaryDark: #666
Error: #f88

(function($){

merge(config.macros,{
	mptwCollapse: {
		handler: function(place,macroName,params) {
			createTiddlyButton(place, params[0] == '+' ? '\u25AD' : '\u25AC', 'collapse/uncollapse', function(){
				$(story.findContainingTiddler(place)).toggleClass('collapsed');
			});
		}
	}
});

/* this doesn't work unless you have a modified ViewTempate */
config.shadowTiddlers["MptwCollapsePluginStyles"] = ""
	+".collapsed .uncollapsedView { display:none;       }"
	+".collapsedView              { display:none;       }"
	+".collapsed .collapsedView   { display:block;      }"
	+".tiddler.collapsed          { padding-bottom:1em; }"
	+".tiddler.collapsed .title   { font-size:100%;     }"
;

store.addNotification("MptwCollapsePluginStyles",refreshStyles);

})(jQuery);
/***
|Name:|MptwConfigPlugin|
|Description:|Miscellaneous tweaks used by MPTW|
|Version:|1.0 ($Rev: 3646 $)|
|Date:|$Date: 2008-02-27 02:34:38 +1000 (Wed, 27 Feb 2008) $|
|Source:|http://mptw.tiddlyspot.com/#MptwConfigPlugin|
|Author:|Simon Baird <simon.baird@gmail.com>|
|License:|http://mptw.tiddlyspot.com/#MptwConfigPlugin|
!!Note: instead of editing this you should put overrides in MptwUserConfigPlugin
***/
//{{{
var originalReadOnly = readOnly;
var originalShowBackstage = showBackstage;

config.options.chkHttpReadOnly = false; 		// means web visitors can experiment with your site by clicking edit
readOnly = false;								// needed because the above doesn't work any more post 2.1 (??)
showBackstage = true;							// show backstage for same reason

config.options.chkInsertTabs = true;    		// tab inserts a tab when editing a tiddler
config.views.wikified.defaultText = "";			// don't need message when a tiddler doesn't exist
config.views.editor.defaultText = "";			// don't need message when creating a new tiddler 

config.options.chkSaveBackups = true;			// do save backups
config.options.txtBackupFolder = 'twbackup';	// put backups in a backups folder

config.options.chkAutoSave = (window.location.protocol == "file:"); // do autosave if we're in local file

config.mptwVersion = "2.5.3";

config.macros.mptwVersion={handler:function(place){wikify(config.mptwVersion,place);}};

if (config.options.txtTheme == '')
	config.options.txtTheme = 'MptwTheme';

// add to default GettingStarted
config.shadowTiddlers.GettingStarted += "\n\nSee also [[MPTW]].";

// add select theme and palette controls in default OptionsPanel
config.shadowTiddlers.OptionsPanel = config.shadowTiddlers.OptionsPanel.replace(/(\n\-\-\-\-\nAlso see \[\[AdvancedOptions\]\])/, "{{select{<<selectTheme>>\n<<selectPalette>>}}}$1");

// these are used by ViewTemplate
config.mptwDateFormat = 'DD/MM/YY';
config.mptwJournalFormat = 'Journal DD/MM/YY';

//}}}
Name: MptwGreen
Background: #fff
Foreground: #000
PrimaryPale: #9b9
PrimaryLight: #385
PrimaryMid: #031
PrimaryDark: #020
SecondaryPale: #ffc
SecondaryLight: #fe8
SecondaryMid: #db4
SecondaryDark: #841
TertiaryPale: #eee
TertiaryLight: #ccc
TertiaryMid: #999
TertiaryDark: #666
Error: #f88

Name: MptwRed
Background: #fff
Foreground: #000
PrimaryPale: #eaa
PrimaryLight: #c55
PrimaryMid: #711
PrimaryDark: #500
SecondaryPale: #ffc
SecondaryLight: #fe8
SecondaryMid: #db4
SecondaryDark: #841
TertiaryPale: #eee
TertiaryLight: #ccc
TertiaryMid: #999
TertiaryDark: #666
Error: #f88

|Name|MptwRounded|
|Description|Mptw Theme with some rounded corners (Firefox only)|
|ViewTemplate|MptwTheme##ViewTemplate|
|EditTemplate|MptwTheme##EditTemplate|
|PageTemplate|MptwTheme##PageTemplate|
|StyleSheet|##StyleSheet|

!StyleSheet
/*{{{*/

[[MptwTheme##StyleSheet]]

.tiddler,
.sliderPanel,
.button,
.tiddlyLink,
.tabContents
{ -moz-border-radius: 1em; }

.tab {
	-moz-border-radius-topleft: 0.5em;
	-moz-border-radius-topright: 0.5em;
}
#topMenu {
	-moz-border-radius-bottomleft: 2em;
	-moz-border-radius-bottomright: 2em;
}

/*}}}*/

Name: MptwSmoke
Background: #fff
Foreground: #000
PrimaryPale: #aaa
PrimaryLight: #777
PrimaryMid: #111
PrimaryDark: #000
SecondaryPale: #ffc
SecondaryLight: #fe8
SecondaryMid: #db4
SecondaryDark: #841
TertiaryPale: #eee
TertiaryLight: #ccc
TertiaryMid: #999
TertiaryDark: #666
Error: #f88

|Name|MptwStandard|
|Description|Mptw Theme with the default TiddlyWiki PageLayout and Styles|
|ViewTemplate|MptwTheme##ViewTemplate|
|EditTemplate|MptwTheme##EditTemplate|
Name: MptwTeal
Background: #fff
Foreground: #000
PrimaryPale: #B5D1DF
PrimaryLight: #618FA9
PrimaryMid: #1a3844
PrimaryDark: #000
SecondaryPale: #ffc
SecondaryLight: #fe8
SecondaryMid: #db4
SecondaryDark: #841
TertiaryPale: #f8f8f8
TertiaryLight: #bbb
TertiaryMid: #999
TertiaryDark: #888
Error: #f88
|Name|MptwTheme|
|Description|Mptw Theme including custom PageLayout|
|PageTemplate|##PageTemplate|
|ViewTemplate|##ViewTemplate|
|EditTemplate|##EditTemplate|
|StyleSheet|##StyleSheet|

http://mptw.tiddlyspot.com/#MptwTheme ($Rev: 1829 $)

!PageTemplate
<!--{{{-->
<div class='header' macro='gradient vert [[ColorPalette::PrimaryLight]] [[ColorPalette::PrimaryMid]]'>
	<div class='headerShadow'>
		<span class='siteTitle' refresh='content' tiddler='SiteTitle'></span>&nbsp;
		<span class='siteSubtitle' refresh='content' tiddler='SiteSubtitle'></span>
	</div>
	<div class='headerForeground'>
		<span class='siteTitle' refresh='content' tiddler='SiteTitle'></span>&nbsp;
		<span class='siteSubtitle' refresh='content' tiddler='SiteSubtitle'></span>
	</div>
</div>
<!-- horizontal MainMenu -->
<div id='topMenu' refresh='content' tiddler='MainMenu'></div>
<!-- original MainMenu menu -->
<!-- <div id='mainMenu' refresh='content' tiddler='MainMenu'></div> -->
<div id='sidebar'>
	<div id='sidebarOptions' refresh='content' tiddler='SideBarOptions'></div>
	<div id='sidebarTabs' refresh='content' force='true' tiddler='SideBarTabs'></div>
</div>
<div id='displayArea'>
	<div id='messageArea'></div>
	<div id='tiddlerDisplay'></div>
</div>
<!--}}}-->

!ViewTemplate
<!--{{{-->
<div class="uncollapsedView">
[[MptwTheme##ViewTemplateToolbar]]

<div class="tagglyTagged" macro="tags"></div>

<div class='titleContainer'>
	<span class='title' macro='view title'></span>
	<span macro="miniTag"></span>
</div>

<div class='subtitle'>
	(updated <span macro='view modified date {{config.mptwDateFormat?config.mptwDateFormat:"MM/0DD/YY"}}'></span>
	by <span macro='view modifier link'></span>)
	<!--
	(<span macro='message views.wikified.createdPrompt'></span>
	<span macro='view created date {{config.mptwDateFormat?config.mptwDateFormat:"MM/0DD/YY"}}'></span>)
	-->
</div>

<div macro="showWhen tiddler.tags.containsAny(['css','html','pre','systemConfig']) && !tiddler.text.match('{{'+'{')">
	<div class='viewer'><pre macro='view text'></pre></div>
</div>
<div macro="else">
	<div class='viewer' macro='view text wikified'></div>
</div>

<div class="tagglyTagging" macro="tagglyTagging"></div>
</div>
<div class="collapsedView">
	<span class='toolbar'>
		<span macro='toolbar closeTiddler'></span>
		<span macro='mptwCollapse +'></span>
	</span>
	<span class='title' macro='view title'></span>
</div>

<!--}}}-->

!ViewTemplateToolbar
<!--{{{-->
<div class='toolbar'>
	<span macro="showWhenTagged systemConfig">
		<span macro="toggleTag systemConfigDisable . '[[disable|systemConfigDisable]]'"></span>
	</span>
	<span macro="showWhenTagged systemTheme"><span macro="applyTheme"></span></span>
	<span macro="showWhenTagged systemPalette"><span macro="applyPalette"></span></span>
	<span macro="showWhen tiddler.tags.contains('css') || tiddler.title == 'StyleSheet'"><span macro="refreshAll"></span></span>
	<span style="padding:1em;"></span>
	<span macro='toolbar closeTiddler closeOthers +editTiddler deleteTiddler > fields syncing permalink references jump'></span> <span macro='newHere label:"new here"'></span>
	<span macro='newJournalHere {{config.mptwJournalFormat?config.mptwJournalFormat:"MM/0DD/YY"}}'></span>
	<!--span macro='mptwCollapse -'></span-->
</div>
<!--}}}-->

!EditTemplate
<!--{{{-->
<div class="toolbar" macro="toolbar +saveTiddler saveCloseTiddler closeOthers -cancelTiddler cancelCloseTiddler deleteTiddler"></div>
<div class="title" macro="view title"></div>
<div class="editLabel">Title</div><div class="editor" macro="edit title"></div>
<div macro='annotations'></div>
<div class="editLabel">Content</div><div class="editor" macro="edit text"></div>
<div class="editLabel">Tags</div><div class="editor" macro="edit tags"></div>
<div class="editorFooter"><span macro="message views.editor.tagPrompt"></span><span macro="tagChooser"></span></div>
<!--}}}-->

!StyleSheet
/*{{{*/

/* a contrasting background so I can see where one tiddler ends and the other begins */
body {
	background: [[ColorPalette::TertiaryLight]];
}

/* sexy colours and font for the header */
.headerForeground {
	color: [[ColorPalette::PrimaryPale]];
}
.headerShadow, .headerShadow a {
	color: [[ColorPalette::PrimaryMid]];
}

/* separate the top menu parts */
.headerForeground, .headerShadow {
	padding: 1em 1em 0;
}

.headerForeground, .headerShadow {
	font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;
	font-weight:bold;
}
.headerForeground .siteSubtitle {
	color: [[ColorPalette::PrimaryLight]];
}
.headerShadow .siteSubtitle {
	color: [[ColorPalette::PrimaryMid]];
}

/* make shadow go and down right instead of up and left */
.headerShadow {
	left: 1px;
	top: 1px;
}

/* prefer monospace for editing */
.editor textarea, .editor input {
	font-family: 'Consolas', monospace;
	background-color:[[ColorPalette::TertiaryPale]];
}


/* sexy tiddler titles */
.title {
	font-size: 250%;
	color: [[ColorPalette::PrimaryLight]];
	font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;
}

/* more subtle tiddler subtitle */
.subtitle {
	padding:0px;
	margin:0px;
	padding-left:1em;
	font-size: 90%;
	color: [[ColorPalette::TertiaryMid]];
}
.subtitle .tiddlyLink {
	color: [[ColorPalette::TertiaryMid]];
}

/* a little bit of extra whitespace */
.viewer {
	padding-bottom:3px;
}

/* don't want any background color for headings */
h1,h2,h3,h4,h5,h6 {
	background-color: transparent;
	color: [[ColorPalette::Foreground]];
}

/* give tiddlers 3d style border and explicit background */
.tiddler {
	background: [[ColorPalette::Background]];
	border-right: 2px [[ColorPalette::TertiaryMid]] solid;
	border-bottom: 2px [[ColorPalette::TertiaryMid]] solid;
	margin-bottom: 1em;
	padding:1em 2em 2em 1.5em;
}

/* make options slider look nicer */
#sidebarOptions .sliderPanel {
	border:solid 1px [[ColorPalette::PrimaryLight]];
}

/* the borders look wrong with the body background */
#sidebar .button {
	border-style: none;
}

/* this means you can put line breaks in SidebarOptions for readability */
#sidebarOptions br {
	display:none;
}
/* undo the above in OptionsPanel */
#sidebarOptions .sliderPanel br {
	display:inline;
}

/* horizontal main menu stuff */
#displayArea {
	margin: 1em 15.7em 0em 1em; /* use the freed up space */
}
#topMenu br {
	display: none;
}
#topMenu {
	background: [[ColorPalette::PrimaryMid]];
	color:[[ColorPalette::PrimaryPale]];
}
#topMenu {
	padding:2px;
}
#topMenu .button, #topMenu .tiddlyLink, #topMenu a {
	margin-left: 0.5em;
	margin-right: 0.5em;
	padding-left: 3px;
	padding-right: 3px;
	color: [[ColorPalette::PrimaryPale]];
	font-size: 115%;
}
#topMenu .button:hover, #topMenu .tiddlyLink:hover {
	background: [[ColorPalette::PrimaryDark]];
}

/* make 2.2 act like 2.1 with the invisible buttons */
.toolbar {
	visibility:hidden;
}
.selected .toolbar {
	visibility:visible;
}

/* experimental. this is a little borked in IE7 with the button 
 * borders but worth it I think for the extra screen realestate */
.toolbar { float:right; }

/* fix for TaggerPlugin. from sb56637. improved by FND */
.popup li .tagger a {
   display:inline;
}

/* makes theme selector look a little better */
#sidebarOptions .sliderPanel .select .button {
  padding:0.5em;
  display:block;
}
#sidebarOptions .sliderPanel .select br {
	display:none;
}

/* make it print a little cleaner */
@media print {
	#topMenu {
		display: none ! important;
	}
	/* not sure if we need all the importants */
	.tiddler {
		border-style: none ! important;
		margin:0px ! important;
		padding:0px ! important;
		padding-bottom:2em ! important;
	}
	.tagglyTagging .button, .tagglyTagging .hidebutton {
		display: none ! important;
	}
	.headerShadow {
		visibility: hidden ! important;
	}
	.tagglyTagged .quickopentag, .tagged .quickopentag {
		border-style: none ! important;
	}
	.quickopentag a.button, .miniTag {
		display: none ! important;
	}
}

/* get user styles specified in StyleSheet */
[[StyleSheet]]

/*}}}*/

|Name|MptwTrim|
|Description|Mptw Theme with a reduced header to increase useful space|
|ViewTemplate|MptwTheme##ViewTemplate|
|EditTemplate|MptwTheme##EditTemplate|
|StyleSheet|MptwTheme##StyleSheet|
|PageTemplate|##PageTemplate|

!PageTemplate
<!--{{{-->

<!-- horizontal MainMenu -->
<div id='topMenu' macro='gradient vert [[ColorPalette::PrimaryLight]] [[ColorPalette::PrimaryMid]]'>
<span refresh='content' tiddler='SiteTitle' style="padding-left:1em;font-weight:bold;"></span>:
<span refresh='content' tiddler='MainMenu'></span>
</div>
<div id='sidebar'>
	<div id='sidebarOptions'>
		<div refresh='content' tiddler='SideBarOptions'></div>
		<div style="margin-left:0.1em;"
			macro='slider chkTabSliderPanel SideBarTabs {{"tabs \u00bb"}} "Show Timeline, All, Tags, etc"'></div>
	</div>
</div>
<div id='displayArea'>
	<div id='messageArea'></div>
	<div id='tiddlerDisplay'></div>
</div>

For upgrading. See [[ImportTiddlers]].
URL: http://mptw.tiddlyspot.com/upgrade.html
/***
|Description:|A place to put your config tweaks so they aren't overwritten when you upgrade MPTW|
See http://www.tiddlywiki.org/wiki/Configuration_Options for other options you can set. In some cases where there are clashes with other plugins it might help to rename this to zzMptwUserConfigPlugin so it gets executed last.
***/
//{{{

// example: set your preferred date format
//config.mptwDateFormat = 'MM/0DD/YY';
//config.mptwJournalFormat = 'Journal MM/0DD/YY';

// example: set the theme you want to start with
//config.options.txtTheme = 'MptwRoundTheme';

// example: switch off autosave, switch on backups and set a backup folder
//config.options.chkSaveBackups = true;
//config.options.chkAutoSave = false;
//config.options.txtBackupFolder = 'backups';

// uncomment to disable 'new means new' functionality for the new journal macro
//config.newMeansNewForJournalsToo = false;

//}}}
/***
|Name:|NewHerePlugin|
|Description:|Creates the new here and new journal macros|
|Version:|3.0 ($Rev: 3861 $)|
|Date:|$Date: 2008-03-08 10:53:09 +1000 (Sat, 08 Mar 2008) $|
|Source:|http://mptw.tiddlyspot.com/#NewHerePlugin|
|Author:|Simon Baird <simon.baird@gmail.com>|
|License|http://mptw.tiddlyspot.com/#TheBSDLicense|
***/
//{{{
merge(config.macros, {
	newHere: {
		handler: function(place,macroName,params,wikifier,paramString,tiddler) {
			wikify("<<newTiddler "+paramString+" tag:[["+tiddler.title+"]]>>",place,null,tiddler);
		}
	},
	newJournalHere: {
		handler: function(place,macroName,params,wikifier,paramString,tiddler) {
			wikify("<<newJournal "+paramString+" tag:[["+tiddler.title+"]]>>",place,null,tiddler);
		}
	}
});

//}}}

/***
|Name:|NewMeansNewPlugin|
|Description:|If 'New Tiddler' already exists then create 'New Tiddler (1)' and so on|
|Version:|1.1.1 ($Rev: 2263 $)|
|Date:|$Date: 2007-06-13 04:22:32 +1000 (Wed, 13 Jun 2007) $|
|Source:|http://mptw.tiddlyspot.com/empty.html#NewMeansNewPlugin|
|Author:|Simon Baird <simon.baird@gmail.com>|
|License|http://mptw.tiddlyspot.com/#TheBSDLicense|
!!Note: I think this should be in the core
***/
//{{{

// change this or set config.newMeansNewForJournalsToo it in MptwUuserConfigPlugin
if (config.newMeansNewForJournalsToo == undefined) config.newMeansNewForJournalsToo = true;

String.prototype.getNextFreeName = function() {
	numberRegExp = / \(([0-9]+)\)$/;
	var match = numberRegExp.exec(this);
	if (match) {
	var num = parseInt(match[1]) + 1;
		return this.replace(numberRegExp," ("+num+")");
	}
	else {
		return this + " (1)";
	}
}

config.macros.newTiddler.checkForUnsaved = function(newName) {
	var r = false;
	story.forEachTiddler(function(title,element) {
		if (title == newName)
			r = true;
	});
	return r;
}

config.macros.newTiddler.getName = function(newName) {
	while (store.getTiddler(newName) || config.macros.newTiddler.checkForUnsaved(newName))
		newName = newName.getNextFreeName();
	return newName;
}


config.macros.newTiddler.onClickNewTiddler = function()
{
	var title = this.getAttribute("newTitle");
	if(this.getAttribute("isJournal") == "true") {
		title = new Date().formatString(title.trim());
	}

	// ---- these three lines should be the only difference between this and the core onClickNewTiddler
	if (config.newMeansNewForJournalsToo || this.getAttribute("isJournal") != "true")
		title = config.macros.newTiddler.getName(title);

	var params = this.getAttribute("params");
	var tags = params ? params.split("|") : [];
	var focus = this.getAttribute("newFocus");
	var template = this.getAttribute("newTemplate");
	var customFields = this.getAttribute("customFields");
	if(!customFields && !store.isShadowTiddler(title))
		customFields = String.encodeHashMap(config.defaultCustomFields);
	story.displayTiddler(null,title,template,false,null,null);
	var tiddlerElem = story.getTiddler(title);
	if(customFields)
		story.addCustomFields(tiddlerElem,customFields);
	var text = this.getAttribute("newText");
	if(typeof text == "string")
		story.getTiddlerField(title,"text").value = text.format([title]);
	for(var t=0;t<tags.length;t++)
		story.setTiddlerTag(title,tags[t],+1);
	story.focusTiddler(title,focus);
	return false;
};

//}}}

"We believe in God because we believe in the Subject"
/***
|''Name:''|PasswordOptionPlugin|
|''Description:''|Extends TiddlyWiki options with non encrypted password option.|
|''Version:''|1.0.2|
|''Date:''|Apr 19, 2007|
|''Source:''|http://tiddlywiki.bidix.info/#PasswordOptionPlugin|
|''Author:''|BidiX (BidiX (at) bidix (dot) info)|
|''License:''|[[BSD open source license|http://tiddlywiki.bidix.info/#%5B%5BBSD%20open%20source%20license%5D%5D ]]|
|''~CoreVersion:''|2.2.0 (Beta 5)|
***/
//{{{
version.extensions.PasswordOptionPlugin = {
	major: 1, minor: 0, revision: 2, 
	date: new Date("Apr 19, 2007"),
	source: 'http://tiddlywiki.bidix.info/#PasswordOptionPlugin',
	author: 'BidiX (BidiX (at) bidix (dot) info',
	license: '[[BSD open source license|http://tiddlywiki.bidix.info/#%5B%5BBSD%20open%20source%20license%5D%5D]]',
	coreVersion: '2.2.0 (Beta 5)'
};

config.macros.option.passwordCheckboxLabel = "Save this password on this computer";
config.macros.option.passwordInputType = "password"; // password | text
setStylesheet(".pasOptionInput {width: 11em;}\n","passwordInputTypeStyle");

merge(config.macros.option.types, {
	'pas': {
		elementType: "input",
		valueField: "value",
		eventName: "onkeyup",
		className: "pasOptionInput",
		typeValue: config.macros.option.passwordInputType,
		create: function(place,type,opt,className,desc) {
			// password field
			config.macros.option.genericCreate(place,'pas',opt,className,desc);
			// checkbox linked with this password "save this password on this computer"
			config.macros.option.genericCreate(place,'chk','chk'+opt,className,desc);			
			// text savePasswordCheckboxLabel
			place.appendChild(document.createTextNode(config.macros.option.passwordCheckboxLabel));
		},
		onChange: config.macros.option.genericOnChange
	}
});

merge(config.optionHandlers['chk'], {
	get: function(name) {
		// is there an option linked with this chk ?
		var opt = name.substr(3);
		if (config.options[opt]) 
			saveOptionCookie(opt);
		return config.options[name] ? "true" : "false";
	}
});

merge(config.optionHandlers, {
	'pas': {
 		get: function(name) {
			if (config.options["chk"+name]) {
				return encodeCookie(config.options[name].toString());
			} else {
				return "";
			}
		},
		set: function(name,value) {config.options[name] = decodeCookie(value);}
	}
});

// need to reload options to load passwordOptions
loadOptionsCookie();

/*
if (!config.options['pasPassword'])
	config.options['pasPassword'] = '';

merge(config.optionsDesc,{
		pasPassword: "Test password"
	});
*/
//}}}
<<tabs txtCookie [[Hegel]] "Georg Wilhelm Friedrich" [[HegelNotes]] [[Nietzsche ]] "Friedrich Wilhelm" [[NietzscheNotes]] [[Koestler ]] "Arthur?" [[KoestlerNotes]] [[Smolin]] "??" [[SmolinNotes]] [[James]] "William" [[JamesNotes]] [[Hiintikka]] "Jaako" [[HiintikkaNotes]] [[Hume]] "" [[HumeNotes]] [[Williams]] "Bernard" [[WilliamsNotes]] [[Gassendi]] "Pierre" [[GassendiNotes]] [[Kierkegaard]] "Soren" [[KierkegaardeNotes]] [[Lichtenberg]] "" [[LichtenbergNotes]] [[Romanes]] "George John" [[RomanesNotes]] [[Kleist]] "Heinrich von" [[KleistNotes]] [[Hempel]] "Carl" [[HempelNotes]] [[Quine]] "W.V." [[QuineNotes]] [[Ryle]] "Gilbert" [[RyleNotes]] [[Carnap]] "Rudolph" [[CarnapNotes]] [[Dennett]] "William" [[DennettNotes]] [[Watson]] "John B." [[WatsonNotes]] [[Skinner]] "B.F." [[SkinnerNotes]] >>
/***
|Name:|PrettyDatesPlugin|
|Description:|Provides a new date format ('pppp') that displays times such as '2 days ago'|
|Version:|1.0 ($Rev: 3646 $)|
|Date:|$Date: 2008-02-27 02:34:38 +1000 (Wed, 27 Feb 2008) $|
|Source:|http://mptw.tiddlyspot.com/#PrettyDatesPlugin|
|Author:|Simon Baird <simon.baird@gmail.com>|
|License:|http://mptw.tiddlyspot.com/#TheBSDLicense|
!!Notes
* If you want to you can rename this plugin. :) Some suggestions: LastUpdatedPlugin, RelativeDatesPlugin, SmartDatesPlugin, SexyDatesPlugin.
* Inspired by http://ejohn.org/files/pretty.js
***/
//{{{
Date.prototype.prettyDate = function() {
	var diff = (((new Date()).getTime() - this.getTime()) / 1000);
	var day_diff = Math.floor(diff / 86400);

	if (isNaN(day_diff))      return "";
	else if (diff < 0)        return "in the future";
	else if (diff < 60)       return "just now";
	else if (diff < 120)      return "1 minute ago";
	else if (diff < 3600)     return Math.floor(diff/60) + " minutes ago";
	else if (diff < 7200)     return "1 hour ago";
	else if (diff < 86400)    return Math.floor(diff/3600) + " hours ago";
	else if (day_diff == 1)   return "Yesterday";
	else if (day_diff < 7)    return day_diff + " days ago";
	else if (day_diff < 14)   return  "a week ago";
	else if (day_diff < 31)   return Math.ceil(day_diff/7) + " weeks ago";
	else if (day_diff < 62)   return "a month ago";
	else if (day_diff < 365)  return "about " + Math.ceil(day_diff/31) + " months ago";
	else if (day_diff < 730)  return "a year ago";
	else                      return Math.ceil(day_diff/365) + " years ago";
}

Date.prototype.formatString_orig_mptw = Date.prototype.formatString;

Date.prototype.formatString = function(template) {
	return this.formatString_orig_mptw(template).replace(/pppp/,this.prettyDate());
}

// for MPTW. otherwise edit your ViewTemplate as required.
// config.mptwDateFormat = 'pppp (DD/MM/YY)'; 
config.mptwDateFormat = 'pppp'; 

//}}}

Stuff to work on:

[[The Answer]]
/***
|Name:|QuickOpenTagPlugin|
|Description:|Changes tag links to make it easier to open tags as tiddlers|
|Version:|3.0.1 ($Rev: 3861 $)|
|Date:|$Date: 2008-03-08 10:53:09 +1000 (Sat, 08 Mar 2008) $|
|Source:|http://mptw.tiddlyspot.com/#QuickOpenTagPlugin|
|Author:|Simon Baird <simon.baird@gmail.com>|
|License:|http://mptw.tiddlyspot.com/#TheBSDLicense|
***/
//{{{
config.quickOpenTag = {

	dropdownChar: (document.all ? "\u25bc" : "\u25be"), // the little one doesn't work in IE?

	createTagButton: function(place,tag,excludeTiddler) {
		// little hack so we can do this: <<tag PrettyTagName|RealTagName>>
		var splitTag = tag.split("|");
		var pretty = tag;
		if (splitTag.length == 2) {
			tag = splitTag[1];
			pretty = splitTag[0];
		}
		
		var sp = createTiddlyElement(place,"span",null,"quickopentag");
		createTiddlyText(createTiddlyLink(sp,tag,false),pretty);
		
		var theTag = createTiddlyButton(sp,config.quickOpenTag.dropdownChar,
                        config.views.wikified.tag.tooltip.format([tag]),onClickTag);
		theTag.setAttribute("tag",tag);
		if (excludeTiddler)
			theTag.setAttribute("tiddler",excludeTiddler);
    		return(theTag);
	},

	miniTagHandler: function(place,macroName,params,wikifier,paramString,tiddler) {
		var tagged = store.getTaggedTiddlers(tiddler.title);
		if (tagged.length > 0) {
			var theTag = createTiddlyButton(place,config.quickOpenTag.dropdownChar,
                        	config.views.wikified.tag.tooltip.format([tiddler.title]),onClickTag);
			theTag.setAttribute("tag",tiddler.title);
			theTag.className = "miniTag";
		}
	},

	allTagsHandler: function(place,macroName,params) {
		var tags = store.getTags(params[0]);
		var filter = params[1]; // new feature
		var ul = createTiddlyElement(place,"ul");
		if(tags.length == 0)
			createTiddlyElement(ul,"li",null,"listTitle",this.noTags);
		for(var t=0; t<tags.length; t++) {
			var title = tags[t][0];
			if (!filter || (title.match(new RegExp('^'+filter)))) {
				var info = getTiddlyLinkInfo(title);
				var theListItem =createTiddlyElement(ul,"li");
				var theLink = createTiddlyLink(theListItem,tags[t][0],true);
				var theCount = " (" + tags[t][1] + ")";
				theLink.appendChild(document.createTextNode(theCount));
				var theDropDownBtn = createTiddlyButton(theListItem," " +
					config.quickOpenTag.dropdownChar,this.tooltip.format([tags[t][0]]),onClickTag);
				theDropDownBtn.setAttribute("tag",tags[t][0]);
			}
		}
	},

	// todo fix these up a bit
	styles: [
"/*{{{*/",
"/* created by QuickOpenTagPlugin */",
".tagglyTagged .quickopentag, .tagged .quickopentag ",
"	{ margin-right:1.2em; border:1px solid #eee; padding:2px; padding-right:0px; padding-left:1px; }",
".quickopentag .tiddlyLink { padding:2px; padding-left:3px; }",
".quickopentag a.button { padding:1px; padding-left:2px; padding-right:2px;}",
"/* extra specificity to make it work right */",
"#displayArea .viewer .quickopentag a.button, ",
"#displayArea .viewer .quickopentag a.tiddyLink, ",
"#mainMenu .quickopentag a.tiddyLink, ",
"#mainMenu .quickopentag a.tiddyLink ",
"	{ border:0px solid black; }",
"#displayArea .viewer .quickopentag a.button, ",
"#mainMenu .quickopentag a.button ",
"	{ margin-left:0px; padding-left:2px; }",
"#displayArea .viewer .quickopentag a.tiddlyLink, ",
"#mainMenu .quickopentag a.tiddlyLink ",
"	{ margin-right:0px; padding-right:0px; padding-left:0px; margin-left:0px; }",
"a.miniTag {font-size:150%;} ",
"#mainMenu .quickopentag a.button ",
"	/* looks better in right justified main menus */",
"	{ margin-left:0px; padding-left:2px; margin-right:0px; padding-right:0px; }", 
"#topMenu .quickopentag { padding:0px; margin:0px; border:0px; }",
"#topMenu .quickopentag .tiddlyLink { padding-right:1px; margin-right:0px; }",
"#topMenu .quickopentag .button { padding-left:1px; margin-left:0px; border:0px; }",
"/*}}}*/",
		""].join("\n"),

	init: function() {
		// we fully replace these builtins. can't hijack them easily
		window.createTagButton = this.createTagButton;
		config.macros.allTags.handler = this.allTagsHandler;
		config.macros.miniTag = { handler: this.miniTagHandler };
		config.shadowTiddlers["QuickOpenTagStyles"] = this.styles;
		store.addNotification("QuickOpenTagStyles",refreshStyles);
	}
}

config.quickOpenTag.init();

//}}}

Descriptivism (Frege, Russell)
???? (Kripke, others)
Naive (Mill)
Mixed
Negative (Quine, others)
/***
|Name:|RenameTagsPlugin|
|Description:|Allows you to easily rename or delete tags across multiple tiddlers|
|Version:|3.0 ($Rev: 5501 $)|
|Date:|$Date: 2008-06-10 23:11:55 +1000 (Tue, 10 Jun 2008) $|
|Source:|http://mptw.tiddlyspot.com/#RenameTagsPlugin|
|Author:|Simon Baird <simon.baird@gmail.com>|
|License|http://mptw.tiddlyspot.com/#TheBSDLicense|
Rename a tag and you will be prompted to rename it in all its tagged tiddlers.
***/
//{{{
config.renameTags = {

	prompts: {
		rename: "Rename the tag '%0' to '%1' in %2 tidder%3?",
		remove: "Remove the tag '%0' from %1 tidder%2?"
	},

	removeTag: function(tag,tiddlers) {
		store.suspendNotifications();
		for (var i=0;i<tiddlers.length;i++) {
			store.setTiddlerTag(tiddlers[i].title,false,tag);
		}
		store.resumeNotifications();
		store.notifyAll();
	},

	renameTag: function(oldTag,newTag,tiddlers) {
		store.suspendNotifications();
		for (var i=0;i<tiddlers.length;i++) {
			store.setTiddlerTag(tiddlers[i].title,false,oldTag); // remove old
			store.setTiddlerTag(tiddlers[i].title,true,newTag);  // add new
		}
		store.resumeNotifications();
		store.notifyAll();
	},

	storeMethods: {

		saveTiddler_orig_renameTags: TiddlyWiki.prototype.saveTiddler,

		saveTiddler: function(title,newTitle,newBody,modifier,modified,tags,fields,clearChangeCount,created,creator) {
			if (title != newTitle) {
				var tagged = this.getTaggedTiddlers(title);
				if (tagged.length > 0) {
					// then we are renaming a tag
					if (confirm(config.renameTags.prompts.rename.format([title,newTitle,tagged.length,tagged.length>1?"s":""])))
						config.renameTags.renameTag(title,newTitle,tagged);

					if (!this.tiddlerExists(title) && newBody == "")
						// dont create unwanted tiddler
						return null;
				}
			}
			return this.saveTiddler_orig_renameTags(title,newTitle,newBody,modifier,modified,tags,fields,clearChangeCount,created,creator);
		},

		removeTiddler_orig_renameTags: TiddlyWiki.prototype.removeTiddler,

		removeTiddler: function(title) {
			var tagged = this.getTaggedTiddlers(title);
			if (tagged.length > 0)
				if (confirm(config.renameTags.prompts.remove.format([title,tagged.length,tagged.length>1?"s":""])))
					config.renameTags.removeTag(title,tagged);
			return this.removeTiddler_orig_renameTags(title);
		}

	},

	init: function() {
		merge(TiddlyWiki.prototype,this.storeMethods);
	}
}

config.renameTags.init();

//}}}

Beter known as a biologist, of evolutionary sorts, and popular with his students, but not one of the big 19th century philosophical figures. Still, I liked the clarity of his explanation of the problem of materialism and the mind (and conversely remain puzzled by his solution). Basically, he points out that although we all agree with the materialist "matter and movement" program, we can't easily go on to use matter and movement to account for mind, because it is mind that has given us (the ideas of) matter and movement.  (I suppose you could adopt a positivist exit from this problem, if you're feeling up to it) If mind comes first, then you have to deal with idealist problems, which leaves your materialism in need of dry-cleaning. 

I don't think there's a way out of this, except "Choose your poison".

See [[Kleist|KleistNotes]]...

/***
|Name:|SaveCloseTiddlerPlugin|
|Description:|Provides two extra toolbar commands, saveCloseTiddler and cancelCloseTiddler|
|Version:|3.0 ($Rev: 5502 $)|
|Date:|$Date: 2008-06-10 23:31:39 +1000 (Tue, 10 Jun 2008) $|
|Source:|http://mptw.tiddlyspot.com/#SaveCloseTiddlerPlugin|
|Author:|Simon Baird <simon.baird@gmail.com>|
|License:|http://mptw.tiddlyspot.com/#TheBSDLicense|
To use these you must add them to the tool bar in your EditTemplate
***/
//{{{
merge(config.commands,{

	saveCloseTiddler: {
		text: 'done/close',
		tooltip: 'Save changes to this tiddler and close it',
		handler: function(ev,src,title) {
			var closeTitle = title;
			var newTitle = story.saveTiddler(title,ev.shiftKey);
			if (newTitle)
				closeTitle = newTitle;
			return config.commands.closeTiddler.handler(ev,src,closeTitle);
		}
	},

	cancelCloseTiddler: {
		text: 'cancel/close',
		tooltip: 'Undo changes to this tiddler and close it',
		handler: function(ev,src,title) {
			// the same as closeTiddler now actually
			return config.commands.closeTiddler.handler(ev,src,title);
		}
	}

});

//}}}

/***
|Name:|SelectThemePlugin|
|Description:|Lets you easily switch theme and palette|
|Version:|1.0.1 ($Rev: 3646 $)|
|Date:|$Date: 2008-02-27 02:34:38 +1000 (Wed, 27 Feb 2008) $|
|Source:|http://mptw.tiddlyspot.com/#SelectThemePlugin|
|Author:|Simon Baird <simon.baird@gmail.com>|
|License:|http://mptw.tiddlyspot.com/#TheBSDLicense|
!Notes
* Borrows largely from ThemeSwitcherPlugin by Martin Budden http://www.martinswiki.com/#ThemeSwitcherPlugin
* Theme is cookie based. But set a default by setting config.options.txtTheme in MptwConfigPlugin (for example)
* Palette is not cookie based. It actually overwrites your ColorPalette tiddler when you select a palette, so beware. 
!Usage
* {{{<<selectTheme>>}}} makes a dropdown selector
* {{{<<selectPalette>>}}} makes a dropdown selector
* {{{<<applyTheme>>}}} applies the current tiddler as a theme
* {{{<<applyPalette>>}}} applies the current tiddler as a palette
* {{{<<applyTheme TiddlerName>>}}} applies TiddlerName as a theme
* {{{<<applyPalette TiddlerName>>}}} applies TiddlerName as a palette
***/
//{{{

config.macros.selectTheme = {
	label: {
		selectTheme:"select theme",
		selectPalette:"select palette"
	},
	prompt: {
		selectTheme:"Select the current theme",
		selectPalette:"Select the current palette"
	},
	tags: {
		selectTheme:'systemTheme',
		selectPalette:'systemPalette'
	}
};

config.macros.selectTheme.handler = function(place,macroName)
{
	var btn = createTiddlyButton(place,this.label[macroName],this.prompt[macroName],this.onClick);
	// want to handle palettes and themes with same code. use mode attribute to distinguish
	btn.setAttribute('mode',macroName);
};

config.macros.selectTheme.onClick = function(ev)
{
	var e = ev ? ev : window.event;
	var popup = Popup.create(this);
	var mode = this.getAttribute('mode');
	var tiddlers = store.getTaggedTiddlers(config.macros.selectTheme.tags[mode]);
	// for default
	if (mode == "selectPalette") {
		var btn = createTiddlyButton(createTiddlyElement(popup,'li'),"(default)","default color palette",config.macros.selectTheme.onClickTheme);
		btn.setAttribute('theme',"(default)");
		btn.setAttribute('mode',mode);
	}
	for(var i=0; i<tiddlers.length; i++) {
		var t = tiddlers[i].title;
		var name = store.getTiddlerSlice(t,'Name');
		var desc = store.getTiddlerSlice(t,'Description');
		var btn = createTiddlyButton(createTiddlyElement(popup,'li'), name?name:t, desc?desc:config.macros.selectTheme.label['mode'], config.macros.selectTheme.onClickTheme);
		btn.setAttribute('theme',t);
		btn.setAttribute('mode',mode);
	}
	Popup.show();
	return stopEvent(e);
};

config.macros.selectTheme.onClickTheme = function(ev)
{
	var mode = this.getAttribute('mode');
	var theme = this.getAttribute('theme');
	if (mode == 'selectTheme')
		story.switchTheme(theme);
	else // selectPalette
		config.macros.selectTheme.updatePalette(theme);
	return false;
};

config.macros.selectTheme.updatePalette = function(title)
{
	if (title != "") {
		store.deleteTiddler("ColorPalette");
		if (title != "(default)")
			store.saveTiddler("ColorPalette","ColorPalette",store.getTiddlerText(title),
					config.options.txtUserName,undefined,"");
		refreshAll();
		if(config.options.chkAutoSave)
			saveChanges(true);
	}
};

config.macros.applyTheme = {
	label: "apply",
	prompt: "apply this theme or palette" // i'm lazy
};

config.macros.applyTheme.handler = function(place,macroName,params,wikifier,paramString,tiddler) {
	var useTiddler = params[0] ? params[0] : tiddler.title;
	var btn = createTiddlyButton(place,this.label,this.prompt,config.macros.selectTheme.onClickTheme);
	btn.setAttribute('theme',useTiddler);
	btn.setAttribute('mode',macroName=="applyTheme"?"selectTheme":"selectPalette"); // a bit untidy here
}

config.macros.selectPalette = config.macros.selectTheme;
config.macros.applyPalette = config.macros.applyTheme;

config.macros.refreshAll = { handler: function(place,macroName,params,wikifier,paramString,tiddler) {
	createTiddlyButton(place,"refresh","refresh layout and styles",function() { refreshAll(); });
}};

//}}}

things struggle to render relevance
What does it mean?
"The Trouble with Physics"
"Three Paths to Quantum Gravity"
"Life of the Cosmos"
<<allTags excludeLists>>
<<tabs txtMoreTab "Tags" "All Tags" TabAllTags "Miss" "Missing tiddlers" TabMoreMissing "Orph" "Orphaned tiddlers" TabMoreOrphans "Shad" "Shadowed tiddlers" TabMoreShadowed>>
<<allTags excludeLists [a-z]>>
/***
|Name:|TagglyTaggingPlugin|
|Description:|tagglyTagging macro is a replacement for the builtin tagging macro in your ViewTemplate|
|Version:|3.3.1 ($Rev: 9828 $)|
|Date:|$Date: 2009-06-03 21:38:41 +1000 (Wed, 03 Jun 2009) $|
|Source:|http://mptw.tiddlyspot.com/#TagglyTaggingPlugin|
|Author:|Simon Baird <simon.baird@gmail.com>|
|License:|http://mptw.tiddlyspot.com/#TheBSDLicense|
!Notes
See http://mptw.tiddlyspot.com/#TagglyTagging
***/
//{{{

merge(String.prototype,{

	parseTagExpr: function(debug) {

		if (this.trim() == "")
			return "(true)";

		var anyLogicOp = /(!|&&|\|\||\(|\))/g;
		var singleLogicOp = /^(!|&&|\|\||\(|\))$/;

		var spaced = this.
			// because square brackets in templates are no good
			// this means you can use [(With Spaces)] instead of [[With Spaces]]
			replace(/\[\(/g," [[").
			replace(/\)\]/g,"]] "). 
			// space things out so we can use readBracketedList. tricky eh?
			replace(anyLogicOp," $1 ");

		var expr = "";

		var tokens = spaced.readBracketedList(false); // false means don't uniq the list. nice one JR!

		for (var i=0;i<tokens.length;i++)
			if (tokens[i].match(singleLogicOp))
				expr += tokens[i];
			else
				expr += "tiddler.tags.contains('%0')".format([tokens[i].replace(/'/,"\\'")]); // fix single quote bug. still have round bracket bug i think

		if (debug)
			alert(expr);

		return '('+expr+')';
	}

});

merge(TiddlyWiki.prototype,{
	getTiddlersByTagExpr: function(tagExpr,sortField) {

		var result = [];

		var expr = tagExpr.parseTagExpr();

		store.forEachTiddler(function(title,tiddler) {
			if (eval(expr))
				result.push(tiddler);
		});

		if(!sortField)
			sortField = "title";

		result.sort(function(a,b) {return a[sortField] < b[sortField] ? -1 : (a[sortField] == b[sortField] ? 0 : +1);});
		
		return result;
	}
});

config.taggly = {

	// for translations
	lingo: {
		labels: {
			asc:        "\u2191", // down arrow
			desc:       "\u2193", // up arrow
			title:      "title",
			modified:   "modified",
			created:    "created",
			show:       "+",
			hide:       "-",
			normal:     "normal",
			group:      "group",
			commas:     "commas",
			sitemap:    "sitemap",
			numCols:    "cols\u00b1", // plus minus sign
			label:      "Tagged as '%0':",
			exprLabel:  "Matching tag expression '%0':",
			excerpts:   "excerpts",
			descr:      "descr",
			slices:     "slices",
			contents:   "contents",
			sliders:    "sliders",
			noexcerpts: "title only",
			noneFound:  "(none)"
		},

		tooltips: {
			title:      "Click to sort by title",
			modified:   "Click to sort by modified date",
			created:    "Click to sort by created date",
			show:       "Click to show tagging list",
			hide:       "Click to hide tagging list",
			normal:     "Click to show a normal ungrouped list",
			group:      "Click to show list grouped by tag",
			sitemap:    "Click to show a sitemap style list",
			commas:     "Click to show a comma separated list",
			numCols:    "Click to change number of columns",
			excerpts:   "Click to show excerpts",
			descr:      "Click to show the description slice",
			slices:     "Click to show all slices",
			contents:   "Click to show entire tiddler contents",
			sliders:    "Click to show tiddler contents in sliders",
			noexcerpts: "Click to show entire title only"
		},

		tooDeepMessage: "* //sitemap too deep...//"
	},

	config: {
		showTaggingCounts: true,
		listOpts: {
			// the first one will be the default
			sortBy:     ["title","modified","created"],
			sortOrder:  ["asc","desc"],
			hideState:  ["show","hide"],
			listMode:   ["normal","group","sitemap","commas"],
			numCols:    ["1","2","3","4","5","6"],
			excerpts:   ["noexcerpts","excerpts","descr","slices","contents","sliders"]
		},
		valuePrefix: "taggly.",
		excludeTags: ["excludeLists","excludeTagging"],
		excerptSize: 50,
		excerptMarker: "/%"+"%/",
		siteMapDepthLimit: 25
	},

	getTagglyOpt: function(title,opt) {
		var val = store.getValue(title,this.config.valuePrefix+opt);
		return val ? val : this.config.listOpts[opt][0];
	},

	setTagglyOpt: function(title,opt,value) {
		// create it silently if it doesn't exist
		if (!store.tiddlerExists(title)) {
			store.saveTiddler(title,title,config.views.editor.defaultText.format([title]),config.options.txtUserName,new Date(),"");

			// <<tagglyTagging expr:"...">> creates a tiddler to store its display settings
			// Make those tiddlers less noticeable by tagging as excludeSearch and excludeLists
			// Because we don't want to hide real tags, check that they aren't actually tags before doing so
			// Also tag them as tagglyExpression for manageability
			// (contributed by RA)
			if (!store.getTaggedTiddlers(title).length) {
				store.setTiddlerTag(title,true,"excludeSearch");
				store.setTiddlerTag(title,true,"excludeLists");
				store.setTiddlerTag(title,true,"tagglyExpression");
			}
		}

		// if value is default then remove it to save space
		return store.setValue(title, this.config.valuePrefix+opt, value == this.config.listOpts[opt][0] ? null : value);
	},

	getNextValue: function(title,opt) {
		var current = this.getTagglyOpt(title,opt);
		var pos = this.config.listOpts[opt].indexOf(current);
		// supposed to automagically don't let cols cycle up past the number of items
		// currently broken in some situations, eg when using an expression
		// lets fix it later when we rewrite for jquery
		// the columns thing should be jquery table manipulation probably
		var limit = (opt == "numCols" ? store.getTaggedTiddlers(title).length : this.config.listOpts[opt].length);
		var newPos = (pos + 1) % limit;
		return this.config.listOpts[opt][newPos];
	},

	toggleTagglyOpt: function(title,opt) {
		var newVal = this.getNextValue(title,opt);
		this.setTagglyOpt(title,opt,newVal);
	}, 

	createListControl: function(place,title,type) {
		var lingo = config.taggly.lingo;
		var label;
		var tooltip;
		var onclick;

		if ((type == "title" || type == "modified" || type == "created")) {
			// "special" controls. a little tricky. derived from sortOrder and sortBy
			label = lingo.labels[type];
			tooltip = lingo.tooltips[type];

			if (this.getTagglyOpt(title,"sortBy") == type) {
				label += lingo.labels[this.getTagglyOpt(title,"sortOrder")];
				onclick = function() {
					config.taggly.toggleTagglyOpt(title,"sortOrder");
					return false;
				}
			}
			else {
				onclick = function() {
					config.taggly.setTagglyOpt(title,"sortBy",type);
					config.taggly.setTagglyOpt(title,"sortOrder",config.taggly.config.listOpts.sortOrder[0]);
					return false;
				}
			}
		}
		else {
			// "regular" controls, nice and simple
			label = lingo.labels[type == "numCols" ? type : this.getNextValue(title,type)];
			tooltip = lingo.tooltips[type == "numCols" ? type : this.getNextValue(title,type)];
			onclick = function() {
				config.taggly.toggleTagglyOpt(title,type);
				return false;
			}
		}

		// hide button because commas don't have columns
		if (!(this.getTagglyOpt(title,"listMode") == "commas" && type == "numCols"))
			createTiddlyButton(place,label,tooltip,onclick,type == "hideState" ? "hidebutton" : "button");
	},

	makeColumns: function(orig,numCols) {
		var listSize = orig.length;
		var colSize = listSize/numCols;
		var remainder = listSize % numCols;

		var upperColsize = colSize;
		var lowerColsize = colSize;

		if (colSize != Math.floor(colSize)) {
			// it's not an exact fit so..
			upperColsize = Math.floor(colSize) + 1;
			lowerColsize = Math.floor(colSize);
		}

		var output = [];
		var c = 0;
		for (var j=0;j<numCols;j++) {
			var singleCol = [];
			var thisSize = j < remainder ? upperColsize : lowerColsize;
			for (var i=0;i<thisSize;i++) 
				singleCol.push(orig[c++]);
			output.push(singleCol);
		}

		return output;
	},

	drawTable: function(place,columns,theClass) {
		var newTable = createTiddlyElement(place,"table",null,theClass);
		var newTbody = createTiddlyElement(newTable,"tbody");
		var newTr = createTiddlyElement(newTbody,"tr");
		for (var j=0;j<columns.length;j++) {
			var colOutput = "";
			for (var i=0;i<columns[j].length;i++) 
				colOutput += columns[j][i];
			var newTd = createTiddlyElement(newTr,"td",null,"tagglyTagging"); // todo should not need this class
			wikify(colOutput,newTd);
		}
		return newTable;
	},

	createTagglyList: function(place,title,isTagExpr) {
		switch(this.getTagglyOpt(title,"listMode")) {
			case "group":  return this.createTagglyListGrouped(place,title,isTagExpr); break;
			case "normal": return this.createTagglyListNormal(place,title,false,isTagExpr); break;
			case "commas": return this.createTagglyListNormal(place,title,true,isTagExpr); break;
			case "sitemap":return this.createTagglyListSiteMap(place,title,isTagExpr); break;
		}
	},

	getTaggingCount: function(title,isTagExpr) {
		// thanks to Doug Edmunds
		if (this.config.showTaggingCounts) {
			var tagCount = config.taggly.getTiddlers(title,'title',isTagExpr).length;
			if (tagCount > 0)
				return " ("+tagCount+")";
		}
		return "";
	},

	getTiddlers: function(titleOrExpr,sortBy,isTagExpr) {
		return isTagExpr ? store.getTiddlersByTagExpr(titleOrExpr,sortBy) : store.getTaggedTiddlers(titleOrExpr,sortBy);
	},

	getExcerpt: function(inTiddlerTitle,title,indent) {
		if (!indent)
			indent = 1;

		var displayMode = this.getTagglyOpt(inTiddlerTitle,"excerpts");
		var t = store.getTiddler(title);

		if (t && displayMode == "excerpts") {
			var text = t.text.replace(/\n/," ");
			var marker = text.indexOf(this.config.excerptMarker);
			if (marker != -1) {
				return " {{excerpt{<nowiki>" + text.substr(0,marker) + "</nowiki>}}}";
			}
			else if (text.length < this.config.excerptSize) {
				return " {{excerpt{<nowiki>" + t.text + "</nowiki>}}}";
			}
			else {
				return " {{excerpt{<nowiki>" + t.text.substr(0,this.config.excerptSize) + "..." + "</nowiki>}}}";
			}
		}
		else if (t && displayMode == "contents") {
			return "\n{{contents indent"+indent+"{\n" + t.text + "\n}}}";
		}
		else if (t && displayMode == "sliders") {
			return "<slider slide>\n{{contents{\n" + t.text + "\n}}}\n</slider>";
		}
		else if (t && displayMode == "descr") {
			var descr = store.getTiddlerSlice(title,'Description');
			return descr ? " {{excerpt{" + descr  + "}}}" : "";
		}
		else if (t && displayMode == "slices") {
			var result = "";
			var slices = store.calcAllSlices(title);
			for (var s in slices)
				result += "|%0|<nowiki>%1</nowiki>|\n".format([s,slices[s]]);
			return result ? "\n{{excerpt excerptIndent{\n" + result  + "}}}" : "";
		}
		return "";
	},

	notHidden: function(t,inTiddler) {
		if (typeof t == "string") 
			t = store.getTiddler(t);
		return (!t || !t.tags.containsAny(this.config.excludeTags) ||
				(inTiddler && this.config.excludeTags.contains(inTiddler)));
	},

	// this is for normal and commas mode
	createTagglyListNormal: function(place,title,useCommas,isTagExpr) {

		var list = config.taggly.getTiddlers(title,this.getTagglyOpt(title,"sortBy"),isTagExpr);

		if (this.getTagglyOpt(title,"sortOrder") == "desc")
			list = list.reverse();

		var output = [];
		var first = true;
		for (var i=0;i<list.length;i++) {
			if (this.notHidden(list[i],title)) {
				var countString = this.getTaggingCount(list[i].title);
				var excerpt = this.getExcerpt(title,list[i].title);
				if (useCommas)
					output.push((first ? "" : ", ") + "[[" + list[i].title + "]]" + countString + excerpt);
				else
					output.push("*[[" + list[i].title + "]]" + countString + excerpt + "\n");

				first = false;
			}
		}

		return this.drawTable(place,
			this.makeColumns(output,useCommas ? 1 : parseInt(this.getTagglyOpt(title,"numCols"))),
			useCommas ? "commas" : "normal");
	},

	// this is for the "grouped" mode
	createTagglyListGrouped: function(place,title,isTagExpr) {
		var sortBy = this.getTagglyOpt(title,"sortBy");
		var sortOrder = this.getTagglyOpt(title,"sortOrder");

		var list = config.taggly.getTiddlers(title,sortBy,isTagExpr);

		if (sortOrder == "desc")
			list = list.reverse();

		var leftOvers = []
		for (var i=0;i<list.length;i++)
			leftOvers.push(list[i].title);

		var allTagsHolder = {};
		for (var i=0;i<list.length;i++) {
			for (var j=0;j<list[i].tags.length;j++) {

				if (list[i].tags[j] != title) { // not this tiddler

					if (this.notHidden(list[i].tags[j],title)) {

						if (!allTagsHolder[list[i].tags[j]])
							allTagsHolder[list[i].tags[j]] = "";

						if (this.notHidden(list[i],title)) {
							allTagsHolder[list[i].tags[j]] += "**[["+list[i].title+"]]"
										+ this.getTaggingCount(list[i].title) + this.getExcerpt(title,list[i].title) + "\n";

							leftOvers.setItem(list[i].title,-1); // remove from leftovers. at the end it will contain the leftovers

						}
					}
				}
			}
		}

		var allTags = [];
		for (var t in allTagsHolder)
			allTags.push(t);

		var sortHelper = function(a,b) {
			if (a == b) return 0;
			if (a < b) return -1;
			return 1;
		};

		allTags.sort(function(a,b) {
			var tidA = store.getTiddler(a);
			var tidB = store.getTiddler(b);
			if (sortBy == "title") return sortHelper(a,b);
			else if (!tidA && !tidB) return 0;
			else if (!tidA) return -1;
			else if (!tidB) return +1;
			else return sortHelper(tidA[sortBy],tidB[sortBy]);
		});

		var leftOverOutput = "";
		for (var i=0;i<leftOvers.length;i++)
			if (this.notHidden(leftOvers[i],title))
				leftOverOutput += "*[["+leftOvers[i]+"]]" + this.getTaggingCount(leftOvers[i]) + this.getExcerpt(title,leftOvers[i]) + "\n";

		var output = [];

		if (sortOrder == "desc")
			allTags.reverse();
		else if (leftOverOutput != "")
			// leftovers first...
			output.push(leftOverOutput);

		for (var i=0;i<allTags.length;i++)
			if (allTagsHolder[allTags[i]] != "")
				output.push("*[["+allTags[i]+"]]" + this.getTaggingCount(allTags[i]) + this.getExcerpt(title,allTags[i]) + "\n" + allTagsHolder[allTags[i]]);

		if (sortOrder == "desc" && leftOverOutput != "")
			// leftovers last...
			output.push(leftOverOutput);

		return this.drawTable(place,
				this.makeColumns(output,parseInt(this.getTagglyOpt(title,"numCols"))),
				"grouped");

	},

	// used to build site map
	treeTraverse: function(title,depth,sortBy,sortOrder,isTagExpr) {

		var list = config.taggly.getTiddlers(title,sortBy,isTagExpr);

		if (sortOrder == "desc")
			list.reverse();

		var indent = "";
		for (var j=0;j<depth;j++)
			indent += "*"

		var childOutput = "";

		if (depth > this.config.siteMapDepthLimit)
			childOutput += indent + this.lingo.tooDeepMessage + "\n";
		else
			for (var i=0;i<list.length;i++)
				if (list[i].title != title)
					if (this.notHidden(list[i].title,this.config.inTiddler))
						childOutput += this.treeTraverse(list[i].title,depth+1,sortBy,sortOrder,false);

		if (depth == 0)
			return childOutput;
		else
			return indent + "[["+title+"]]" + this.getTaggingCount(title) + this.getExcerpt(this.config.inTiddler,title,depth) + "\n" + childOutput;
	},

	// this if for the site map mode
	createTagglyListSiteMap: function(place,title,isTagExpr) {
		this.config.inTiddler = title; // nasty. should pass it in to traverse probably
		var output = this.treeTraverse(title,0,this.getTagglyOpt(title,"sortBy"),this.getTagglyOpt(title,"sortOrder"),isTagExpr);
		return this.drawTable(place,
				this.makeColumns(output.split(/(?=^\*\[)/m),parseInt(this.getTagglyOpt(title,"numCols"))), // regexp magic
				"sitemap"
				);
	},

	macros: {
		tagglyTagging: {
			handler: function (place,macroName,params,wikifier,paramString,tiddler) {
				var parsedParams = paramString.parseParams("tag",null,true);
				var refreshContainer = createTiddlyElement(place,"div");

				// do some refresh magic to make it keep the list fresh - thanks Saq
				refreshContainer.setAttribute("refresh","macro");
				refreshContainer.setAttribute("macroName",macroName);

				var tag = getParam(parsedParams,"tag");
				var expr = getParam(parsedParams,"expr");

				if (expr) {
					refreshContainer.setAttribute("isTagExpr","true");
					refreshContainer.setAttribute("title",expr);
					refreshContainer.setAttribute("showEmpty","true");
				}
				else {
					refreshContainer.setAttribute("isTagExpr","false");
					if (tag) {
        				refreshContainer.setAttribute("title",tag);
						refreshContainer.setAttribute("showEmpty","true");
					}
					else {
        				refreshContainer.setAttribute("title",tiddler.title);
						refreshContainer.setAttribute("showEmpty","false");
					}
				}
				this.refresh(refreshContainer);
			},

			refresh: function(place) {
				var title = place.getAttribute("title");
				var isTagExpr = place.getAttribute("isTagExpr") == "true";
				var showEmpty = place.getAttribute("showEmpty") == "true";
				removeChildren(place);
				addClass(place,"tagglyTagging");
				var countFound = config.taggly.getTiddlers(title,'title',isTagExpr).length
				if (countFound > 0 || showEmpty) {
					var lingo = config.taggly.lingo;
					config.taggly.createListControl(place,title,"hideState");
					if (config.taggly.getTagglyOpt(title,"hideState") == "show") {
						createTiddlyElement(place,"span",null,"tagglyLabel",
								isTagExpr ? lingo.labels.exprLabel.format([title]) : lingo.labels.label.format([title]));
						config.taggly.createListControl(place,title,"title");
						config.taggly.createListControl(place,title,"modified");
						config.taggly.createListControl(place,title,"created");
						config.taggly.createListControl(place,title,"listMode");
						config.taggly.createListControl(place,title,"excerpts");
						config.taggly.createListControl(place,title,"numCols");
						config.taggly.createTagglyList(place,title,isTagExpr);
						if (countFound == 0 && showEmpty)
							createTiddlyElement(place,"div",null,"tagglyNoneFound",lingo.labels.noneFound);
					}
				}
			}
		}
	},

	// todo fix these up a bit
	styles: [
"/*{{{*/",
"/* created by TagglyTaggingPlugin */",
".tagglyTagging { padding-top:0.5em; }",
".tagglyTagging li.listTitle { display:none; }",
".tagglyTagging ul {",
"	margin-top:0px; padding-top:0.5em; padding-left:2em;",
"	margin-bottom:0px; padding-bottom:0px;",
"}",
".tagglyTagging { vertical-align: top; margin:0px; padding:0px; }",
".tagglyTagging table { margin:0px; padding:0px; }",
".tagglyTagging .button { visibility:hidden; margin-left:3px; margin-right:3px; }",
".tagglyTagging .button, .tagglyTagging .hidebutton {",
"	color:[[ColorPalette::TertiaryLight]]; font-size:90%;",
"	border:0px; padding-left:0.3em;padding-right:0.3em;",
"}",
".tagglyTagging .button:hover, .hidebutton:hover, ",
".tagglyTagging .button:active, .hidebutton:active  {",
"	border:0px; background:[[ColorPalette::TertiaryPale]]; color:[[ColorPalette::TertiaryDark]];",
"}",
".selected .tagglyTagging .button { visibility:visible; }",
".tagglyTagging .hidebutton { color:[[ColorPalette::Background]]; }",
".selected .tagglyTagging .hidebutton { color:[[ColorPalette::TertiaryLight]] }",
".tagglyLabel { color:[[ColorPalette::TertiaryMid]]; font-size:90%; }",
".tagglyTagging ul {padding-top:0px; padding-bottom:0.5em; margin-left:1em; }",
".tagglyTagging ul ul {list-style-type:disc; margin-left:-1em;}",
".tagglyTagging ul ul li {margin-left:0.5em; }",
".editLabel { font-size:90%; padding-top:0.5em; }",
".tagglyTagging .commas { padding-left:1.8em; }",
"/* not technically tagglytagging but will put them here anyway */",
".tagglyTagged li.listTitle { display:none; }",
".tagglyTagged li { display: inline; font-size:90%; }",
".tagglyTagged ul { margin:0px; padding:0px; }",
".excerpt { color:[[ColorPalette::TertiaryDark]]; }",
".excerptIndent { margin-left:4em; }",
"div.tagglyTagging table,",
"div.tagglyTagging table tr,",
"td.tagglyTagging",
" {border-style:none!important; }",
".tagglyTagging .contents { border-bottom:2px solid [[ColorPalette::TertiaryPale]]; padding:0 1em 1em 0.5em;",
"  margin-bottom:0.5em; }",
".tagglyTagging .indent1  { margin-left:3em;  }",
".tagglyTagging .indent2  { margin-left:4em;  }",
".tagglyTagging .indent3  { margin-left:5em;  }",
".tagglyTagging .indent4  { margin-left:6em;  }",
".tagglyTagging .indent5  { margin-left:7em;  }",
".tagglyTagging .indent6  { margin-left:8em;  }",
".tagglyTagging .indent7  { margin-left:9em;  }",
".tagglyTagging .indent8  { margin-left:10em; }",
".tagglyTagging .indent9  { margin-left:11em; }",
".tagglyTagging .indent10 { margin-left:12em; }",
".tagglyNoneFound { margin-left:2em; color:[[ColorPalette::TertiaryMid]]; font-size:90%; font-style:italic; }",
"/*}}}*/",
		""].join("\n"),

	init: function() {
		merge(config.macros,this.macros);
		config.shadowTiddlers["TagglyTaggingStyles"] = this.styles;
		store.addNotification("TagglyTaggingStyles",refreshStyles);
	}
};

config.taggly.init();

//}}}

/***
InlineSlidersPlugin
By Saq Imtiaz
http://tw.lewcid.org/sandbox/#InlineSlidersPlugin

// syntax adjusted to not clash with NestedSlidersPlugin
// added + syntax to start open instead of closed

***/
//{{{
config.formatters.unshift( {
	name: "inlinesliders",
	// match: "\\+\\+\\+\\+|\\<slider",
	match: "\\<slider",
	// lookaheadRegExp: /(?:\+\+\+\+|<slider) (.*?)(?:>?)\n((?:.|\n)*?)\n(?:====|<\/slider>)/mg,
	lookaheadRegExp: /(?:<slider)(\+?) (.*?)(?:>)\n((?:.|\n)*?)\n(?:<\/slider>)/mg,
	handler: function(w) {
		this.lookaheadRegExp.lastIndex = w.matchStart;
		var lookaheadMatch = this.lookaheadRegExp.exec(w.source)
		if(lookaheadMatch && lookaheadMatch.index == w.matchStart ) {
			var btn = createTiddlyButton(w.output,lookaheadMatch[2] + " "+"\u00BB",lookaheadMatch[2],this.onClickSlider,"button sliderButton");
			var panel = createTiddlyElement(w.output,"div",null,"sliderPanel");
			panel.style.display = (lookaheadMatch[1] == '+' ? "block" : "none");
			wikify(lookaheadMatch[3],panel);
			w.nextMatch = lookaheadMatch.index + lookaheadMatch[0].length;
		}
   },
   onClickSlider : function(e) {
		if(!e) var e = window.event;
		var n = this.nextSibling;
		n.style.display = (n.style.display=="none") ? "block" : "none";
		return false;
	}
});

//}}}

All one can do is define the axioms within which one wishes to work, and carry on from there. It is dishonest to assume that one can generalise outside of those baseline axioms; attacking the axioms is different from attacking the work, and the nature/intent of the attack should be specified.

There's no escape from the necessity of this limiting and simplification. The nature of language @@color:red;guarantees@@ the @@color:blue;provisional@@ quality of its encodings. And there is no use quibbling about "provisional" and "guarantees" in that previous sentence. It's a defect of English that the idea can't be better expressed, not a defect of the idea.

Just to hand - from [[Hawking]] - if there were a GUTE (Grand Unified Theory of Everything) that would imply a Grand Unified Mechanism; that mechanism might not allow the GUTE to be knowable. (Hawking says that it's the theory that prevents the knowledge, but I think it's the world that would prevent it) Somehow Hawking goes on to convince himself that evolution prevents this from happening; evolution somehow guarantees that any GUTE - should there be one - would be knowable. That appears to mean that evolution - guarantees GUTE is knowable - is //not// described by the GUTE - guarantees GUTE is unknowable. So now it's a GUTEEE; GUT Everything Except Evolution.

I'm not sure that Hawking hasn't missed something there.
Not "theory" in the (is it derogatory) catch-all reference to post-structuralism; just, what is a theory? the starting point for this discussion, for me now, is [[Jammer]]'s inquiry into the epistemology of [[quantum mechanics]].

[[Jammer]] starts with T => {F, M, E}. That is, a theory is comprised of a formalism, a model and an explanation/explication. In fact, there turn out to be multiple explanations; an explanation of the relationship between F and M, between F and the world, even perhaps between T and the set FME. To give a quick example, //e=mc^^2^^// is a ''F''ormalism, the ''E''xplanation tells us that e=energy; m = mass; c=the speed of light in centimeters/second, and the ''M''odel then tells us that mass and energy are equivalent 

/***
|Name:|ToggleTagPlugin|
|Description:|Makes a checkbox which toggles a tag in a tiddler|
|Version:|3.1.0 ($Rev: 4907 $)|
|Date:|$Date: 2008-05-13 03:15:46 +1000 (Tue, 13 May 2008) $|
|Source:|http://mptw.tiddlyspot.com/#ToggleTagPlugin|
|Author:|Simon Baird <simon.baird@gmail.com>|
|License:|http://mptw.tiddlyspot.com/#TheBSDLicense|
!!Usage
{{{<<toggleTag }}}//{{{TagName TiddlerName LabelText}}}//{{{>>}}}
* TagName - the tag to be toggled, default value "checked"
* TiddlerName - the tiddler to toggle the tag in, default value the current tiddler
* LabelText - the text (gets wikified) to put next to the check box, default value is '{{{[[TagName]]}}}' or '{{{[[TagName]] [[TiddlerName]]}}}'
(If a parameter is '.' then the default will be used)
* TouchMod flag - if non empty then touch the tiddlers mod date. Note, can set config.toggleTagAlwaysTouchModDate to always touch mod date
!!Examples
|Code|Description|Example|h
|{{{<<toggleTag>>}}}|Toggles the default tag (checked) in this tiddler|<<toggleTag>>|
|{{{<<toggleTag TagName>>}}}|Toggles the TagName tag in this tiddler|<<toggleTag TagName>>|
|{{{<<toggleTag TagName TiddlerName>>}}}|Toggles the TagName tag in the TiddlerName tiddler|<<toggleTag TagName TiddlerName>>|
|{{{<<toggleTag TagName TiddlerName 'click me'>>}}}|Same but with custom label|<<toggleTag TagName TiddlerName 'click me'>>|
|{{{<<toggleTag . . 'click me'>>}}}|dot means use default value|<<toggleTag . . 'click me'>>|
!!Notes
* If TiddlerName doesn't exist it will be silently created
* Set label to '-' to specify no label
* See also http://mgtd-alpha.tiddlyspot.com/#ToggleTag2
!!Known issues
* Doesn't smoothly handle the case where you toggle a tag in a tiddler that is current open for editing
* Should convert to use named params
***/
//{{{

if (config.toggleTagAlwaysTouchModDate == undefined) config.toggleTagAlwaysTouchModDate = false;

merge(config.macros,{

	toggleTag: {

		createIfRequired: true,
		shortLabel: "[[%0]]",
		longLabel: "[[%0]] [[%1]]",

		handler: function(place,macroName,params,wikifier,paramString,tiddler) {
			var tiddlerTitle = tiddler ? tiddler.title : '';
			var tag   = (params[0] && params[0] != '.') ? params[0] : "checked";
			var title = (params[1] && params[1] != '.') ? params[1] : tiddlerTitle;
			var defaultLabel = (title == tiddlerTitle ? this.shortLabel : this.longLabel);
			var label = (params[2] && params[2] != '.') ? params[2] : defaultLabel;
			var touchMod = (params[3] && params[3] != '.') ? params[3] : "";
			label = (label == '-' ? '' : label); // dash means no label
			var theTiddler = (title == tiddlerTitle ? tiddler : store.getTiddler(title));
			var cb = createTiddlyCheckbox(place, label.format([tag,title]), theTiddler && theTiddler.isTagged(tag), function(e) {
				if (!store.tiddlerExists(title)) {
					if (config.macros.toggleTag.createIfRequired) {
						var content = store.getTiddlerText(title); // just in case it's a shadow
						store.saveTiddler(title,title,content?content:"",config.options.txtUserName,new Date(),null);
					}
					else 
						return false;
				}
				if ((touchMod != "" || config.toggleTagAlwaysTouchModDate) && theTiddler)
						theTiddler.modified = new Date();
				store.setTiddlerTag(title,this.checked,tag);
				return true;
			});
		}
	}
});

//}}}

/***
Description: Contains the stuff you need to use Tiddlyspot
Note, you also need UploadPlugin, PasswordOptionPlugin and LoadRemoteFileThroughProxy
from http://tiddlywiki.bidix.info for a complete working Tiddlyspot site.
***/
//{{{

// edit this if you are migrating sites or retrofitting an existing TW
config.tiddlyspotSiteId = 'philph';

// make it so you can by default see edit controls via http
config.options.chkHttpReadOnly = false;
window.readOnly = false; // make sure of it (for tw 2.2)
window.showBackstage = true; // show backstage too

// disable autosave in d3
if (window.location.protocol != "file:")
	config.options.chkGTDLazyAutoSave = false;

// tweak shadow tiddlers to add upload button, password entry box etc
with (config.shadowTiddlers) {
	SiteUrl = 'http://'+config.tiddlyspotSiteId+'.tiddlyspot.com';
	SideBarOptions = SideBarOptions.replace(/(<<saveChanges>>)/,"$1<<tiddler TspotSidebar>>");
	OptionsPanel = OptionsPanel.replace(/^/,"<<tiddler TspotOptions>>");
	DefaultTiddlers = DefaultTiddlers.replace(/^/,"[[WelcomeToTiddlyspot]] ");
	MainMenu = MainMenu.replace(/^/,"[[WelcomeToTiddlyspot]] ");
}

// create some shadow tiddler content
merge(config.shadowTiddlers,{

'TspotOptions':[
 "tiddlyspot password:",
 "<<option pasUploadPassword>>",
 ""
].join("\n"),

'TspotControls':[
 "| tiddlyspot password:|<<option pasUploadPassword>>|",
 "| site management:|<<upload http://" + config.tiddlyspotSiteId + ".tiddlyspot.com/store.cgi index.html . .  " + config.tiddlyspotSiteId + ">>//(requires tiddlyspot password)//<br>[[control panel|http://" + config.tiddlyspotSiteId + ".tiddlyspot.com/controlpanel]], [[download (go offline)|http://" + config.tiddlyspotSiteId + ".tiddlyspot.com/download]]|",
 "| links:|[[tiddlyspot.com|http://tiddlyspot.com/]], [[FAQs|http://faq.tiddlyspot.com/]], [[blog|http://tiddlyspot.blogspot.com/]], email [[support|mailto:support@tiddlyspot.com]] & [[feedback|mailto:feedback@tiddlyspot.com]], [[donate|http://tiddlyspot.com/?page=donate]]|"
].join("\n"),

'WelcomeToTiddlyspot':[
 "This document is a ~TiddlyWiki from tiddlyspot.com.  A ~TiddlyWiki is an electronic notebook that is great for managing todo lists, personal information, and all sorts of things.",
 "",
 "@@font-weight:bold;font-size:1.3em;color:#444; //What now?// &nbsp;&nbsp;@@ Before you can save any changes, you need to enter your password in the form below.  Then configure privacy and other site settings at your [[control panel|http://" + config.tiddlyspotSiteId + ".tiddlyspot.com/controlpanel]] (your control panel username is //" + config.tiddlyspotSiteId + "//).",
 "<<tiddler TspotControls>>",
 "See also GettingStarted.",
 "",
 "@@font-weight:bold;font-size:1.3em;color:#444; //Working online// &nbsp;&nbsp;@@ You can edit this ~TiddlyWiki right now, and save your changes using the \"save to web\" button in the column on the right.",
 "",
 "@@font-weight:bold;font-size:1.3em;color:#444; //Working offline// &nbsp;&nbsp;@@ A fully functioning copy of this ~TiddlyWiki can be saved onto your hard drive or USB stick.  You can make changes and save them locally without being connected to the Internet.  When you're ready to sync up again, just click \"upload\" and your ~TiddlyWiki will be saved back to tiddlyspot.com.",
 "",
 "@@font-weight:bold;font-size:1.3em;color:#444; //Help!// &nbsp;&nbsp;@@ Find out more about ~TiddlyWiki at [[TiddlyWiki.com|http://tiddlywiki.com]].  Also visit [[TiddlyWiki.org|http://tiddlywiki.org]] for documentation on learning and using ~TiddlyWiki. New users are especially welcome on the [[TiddlyWiki mailing list|http://groups.google.com/group/TiddlyWiki]], which is an excellent place to ask questions and get help.  If you have a tiddlyspot related problem email [[tiddlyspot support|mailto:support@tiddlyspot.com]].",
 "",
 "@@font-weight:bold;font-size:1.3em;color:#444; //Enjoy :)// &nbsp;&nbsp;@@ We hope you like using your tiddlyspot.com site.  Please email [[feedback@tiddlyspot.com|mailto:feedback@tiddlyspot.com]] with any comments or suggestions."
].join("\n"),

'TspotSidebar':[
 "<<upload http://" + config.tiddlyspotSiteId + ".tiddlyspot.com/store.cgi index.html . .  " + config.tiddlyspotSiteId + ">><html><a href='http://" + config.tiddlyspotSiteId + ".tiddlyspot.com/download' class='button'>download</a></html>"
].join("\n")

});
//}}}
| !date | !user | !location | !storeUrl | !uploadDir | !toFilename | !backupdir | !origin |
| 18/02/2011 15:25:55 | AndrewX | [[/|http://philph.tiddlyspot.com/]] | [[store.cgi|http://philph.tiddlyspot.com/store.cgi]] | . | [[index.html | http://philph.tiddlyspot.com/index.html]] | . |
| 28/02/2011 15:47:03 | AndrewX | [[/|http://philph.tiddlyspot.com/]] | [[store.cgi|http://philph.tiddlyspot.com/store.cgi]] | . | [[index.html | http://philph.tiddlyspot.com/index.html]] | . | failed |
| 28/02/2011 15:47:31 | AndrewX | [[/|http://philph.tiddlyspot.com/]] | [[store.cgi|http://philph.tiddlyspot.com/store.cgi]] | . | [[index.html | http://philph.tiddlyspot.com/index.html]] | . | ok |
| 03/03/2011 16:58:25 | AndrewX | [[/|http://philph.tiddlyspot.com/]] | [[store.cgi|http://philph.tiddlyspot.com/store.cgi]] | . | [[index.html | http://philph.tiddlyspot.com/index.html]] | . | ok |
| 04/03/2011 09:34:56 | AndrewX | [[/|http://philph.tiddlyspot.com/]] | [[store.cgi|http://philph.tiddlyspot.com/store.cgi]] | . | [[index.html | http://philph.tiddlyspot.com/index.html]] | . | ok |
| 04/03/2011 15:33:30 | AndrewX | [[/|http://philph.tiddlyspot.com/]] | [[store.cgi|http://philph.tiddlyspot.com/store.cgi]] | . | [[index.html | http://philph.tiddlyspot.com/index.html]] | . | ok |
| 04/03/2011 15:52:40 | AndrewX | [[/|http://philph.tiddlyspot.com/]] | [[store.cgi|http://philph.tiddlyspot.com/store.cgi]] | . | [[index.html | http://philph.tiddlyspot.com/index.html]] | . |
| 19/03/2011 12:27:10 | AndrewX | [[/|http://philph.tiddlyspot.com/]] | [[store.cgi|http://philph.tiddlyspot.com/store.cgi]] | . | [[index.html | http://philph.tiddlyspot.com/index.html]] | . | ok |
| 19/03/2011 12:27:42 | AndrewX | [[/|http://philph.tiddlyspot.com/]] | [[store.cgi|http://philph.tiddlyspot.com/store.cgi]] | . | [[index.html | http://philph.tiddlyspot.com/index.html]] | . |
| 21/04/2011 12:46:21 | AndrewX | [[/|http://philph.tiddlyspot.com/]] | [[store.cgi|http://philph.tiddlyspot.com/store.cgi]] | . | [[index.html | http://philph.tiddlyspot.com/index.html]] | . |
/***
|''Name:''|UploadPlugin|
|''Description:''|Save to web a TiddlyWiki|
|''Version:''|4.1.3|
|''Date:''|Feb 24, 2008|
|''Source:''|http://tiddlywiki.bidix.info/#UploadPlugin|
|''Documentation:''|http://tiddlywiki.bidix.info/#UploadPluginDoc|
|''Author:''|BidiX (BidiX (at) bidix (dot) info)|
|''License:''|[[BSD open source license|http://tiddlywiki.bidix.info/#%5B%5BBSD%20open%20source%20license%5D%5D ]]|
|''~CoreVersion:''|2.2.0|
|''Requires:''|PasswordOptionPlugin|
***/
//{{{
version.extensions.UploadPlugin = {
	major: 4, minor: 1, revision: 3,
	date: new Date("Feb 24, 2008"),
	source: 'http://tiddlywiki.bidix.info/#UploadPlugin',
	author: 'BidiX (BidiX (at) bidix (dot) info',
	coreVersion: '2.2.0'
};

//
// Environment
//

if (!window.bidix) window.bidix = {}; // bidix namespace
bidix.debugMode = false;	// true to activate both in Plugin and UploadService
	
//
// Upload Macro
//

config.macros.upload = {
// default values
	defaultBackupDir: '',	//no backup
	defaultStoreScript: "store.php",
	defaultToFilename: "index.html",
	defaultUploadDir: ".",
	authenticateUser: true	// UploadService Authenticate User
};
	
config.macros.upload.label = {
	promptOption: "Save and Upload this TiddlyWiki with UploadOptions",
	promptParamMacro: "Save and Upload this TiddlyWiki in %0",
	saveLabel: "save to web", 
	saveToDisk: "save to disk",
	uploadLabel: "upload"	
};

config.macros.upload.messages = {
	noStoreUrl: "No store URL in parmeters or options",
	usernameOrPasswordMissing: "Username or password missing"
};

config.macros.upload.handler = function(place,macroName,params) {
	if (readOnly)
		return;
	var label;
	if (document.location.toString().substr(0,4) == "http") 
		label = this.label.saveLabel;
	else
		label = this.label.uploadLabel;
	var prompt;
	if (params[0]) {
		prompt = this.label.promptParamMacro.toString().format([this.destFile(params[0], 
			(params[1] ? params[1]:bidix.basename(window.location.toString())), params[3])]);
	} else {
		prompt = this.label.promptOption;
	}
	createTiddlyButton(place, label, prompt, function() {config.macros.upload.action(params);}, null, null, this.accessKey);
};

config.macros.upload.action = function(params)
{
		// for missing macro parameter set value from options
		if (!params) params = {};
		var storeUrl = params[0] ? params[0] : config.options.txtUploadStoreUrl;
		var toFilename = params[1] ? params[1] : config.options.txtUploadFilename;
		var backupDir = params[2] ? params[2] : config.options.txtUploadBackupDir;
		var uploadDir = params[3] ? params[3] : config.options.txtUploadDir;
		var username = params[4] ? params[4] : config.options.txtUploadUserName;
		var password = config.options.pasUploadPassword; // for security reason no password as macro parameter	
		// for still missing parameter set default value
		if ((!storeUrl) && (document.location.toString().substr(0,4) == "http")) 
			storeUrl = bidix.dirname(document.location.toString())+'/'+config.macros.upload.defaultStoreScript;
		if (storeUrl.substr(0,4) != "http")
			storeUrl = bidix.dirname(document.location.toString()) +'/'+ storeUrl;
		if (!toFilename)
			toFilename = bidix.basename(window.location.toString());
		if (!toFilename)
			toFilename = config.macros.upload.defaultToFilename;
		if (!uploadDir)
			uploadDir = config.macros.upload.defaultUploadDir;
		if (!backupDir)
			backupDir = config.macros.upload.defaultBackupDir;
		// report error if still missing
		if (!storeUrl) {
			alert(config.macros.upload.messages.noStoreUrl);
			clearMessage();
			return false;
		}
		if (config.macros.upload.authenticateUser && (!username || !password)) {
			alert(config.macros.upload.messages.usernameOrPasswordMissing);
			clearMessage();
			return false;
		}
		bidix.upload.uploadChanges(false,null,storeUrl, toFilename, uploadDir, backupDir, username, password); 
		return false; 
};

config.macros.upload.destFile = function(storeUrl, toFilename, uploadDir) 
{
	if (!storeUrl)
		return null;
		var dest = bidix.dirname(storeUrl);
		if (uploadDir && uploadDir != '.')
			dest = dest + '/' + uploadDir;
		dest = dest + '/' + toFilename;
	return dest;
};

//
// uploadOptions Macro
//

config.macros.uploadOptions = {
	handler: function(place,macroName,params) {
		var wizard = new Wizard();
		wizard.createWizard(place,this.wizardTitle);
		wizard.addStep(this.step1Title,this.step1Html);
		var markList = wizard.getElement("markList");
		var listWrapper = document.createElement("div");
		markList.parentNode.insertBefore(listWrapper,markList);
		wizard.setValue("listWrapper",listWrapper);
		this.refreshOptions(listWrapper,false);
		var uploadCaption;
		if (document.location.toString().substr(0,4) == "http") 
			uploadCaption = config.macros.upload.label.saveLabel;
		else
			uploadCaption = config.macros.upload.label.uploadLabel;
		
		wizard.setButtons([
				{caption: uploadCaption, tooltip: config.macros.upload.label.promptOption, 
					onClick: config.macros.upload.action},
				{caption: this.cancelButton, tooltip: this.cancelButtonPrompt, onClick: this.onCancel}
				
			]);
	},
	options: [
		"txtUploadUserName",
		"pasUploadPassword",
		"txtUploadStoreUrl",
		"txtUploadDir",
		"txtUploadFilename",
		"txtUploadBackupDir",
		"chkUploadLog",
		"txtUploadLogMaxLine"		
	],
	refreshOptions: function(listWrapper) {
		var opts = [];
		for(i=0; i<this.options.length; i++) {
			var opt = {};
			opts.push();
			opt.option = "";
			n = this.options[i];
			opt.name = n;
			opt.lowlight = !config.optionsDesc[n];
			opt.description = opt.lowlight ? this.unknownDescription : config.optionsDesc[n];
			opts.push(opt);
		}
		var listview = ListView.create(listWrapper,opts,this.listViewTemplate);
		for(n=0; n<opts.length; n++) {
			var type = opts[n].name.substr(0,3);
			var h = config.macros.option.types[type];
			if (h && h.create) {
				h.create(opts[n].colElements['option'],type,opts[n].name,opts[n].name,"no");
			}
		}
		
	},
	onCancel: function(e)
	{
		backstage.switchTab(null);
		return false;
	},
	
	wizardTitle: "Upload with options",
	step1Title: "These options are saved in cookies in your browser",
	step1Html: "<input type='hidden' name='markList'></input><br>",
	cancelButton: "Cancel",
	cancelButtonPrompt: "Cancel prompt",
	listViewTemplate: {
		columns: [
			{name: 'Description', field: 'description', title: "Description", type: 'WikiText'},
			{name: 'Option', field: 'option', title: "Option", type: 'String'},
			{name: 'Name', field: 'name', title: "Name", type: 'String'}
			],
		rowClasses: [
			{className: 'lowlight', field: 'lowlight'} 
			]}
};

//
// upload functions
//

if (!bidix.upload) bidix.upload = {};

if (!bidix.upload.messages) bidix.upload.messages = {
	//from saving
	invalidFileError: "The original file '%0' does not appear to be a valid TiddlyWiki",
	backupSaved: "Backup saved",
	backupFailed: "Failed to upload backup file",
	rssSaved: "RSS feed uploaded",
	rssFailed: "Failed to upload RSS feed file",
	emptySaved: "Empty template uploaded",
	emptyFailed: "Failed to upload empty template file",
	mainSaved: "Main TiddlyWiki file uploaded",
	mainFailed: "Failed to upload main TiddlyWiki file. Your changes have not been saved",
	//specific upload
	loadOriginalHttpPostError: "Can't get original file",
	aboutToSaveOnHttpPost: 'About to upload on %0 ...',
	storePhpNotFound: "The store script '%0' was not found."
};

bidix.upload.uploadChanges = function(onlyIfDirty,tiddlers,storeUrl,toFilename,uploadDir,backupDir,username,password)
{
	var callback = function(status,uploadParams,original,url,xhr) {
		if (!status) {
			displayMessage(bidix.upload.messages.loadOriginalHttpPostError);
			return;
		}
		if (bidix.debugMode) 
			alert(original.substr(0,500)+"\n...");
		// Locate the storeArea div's 
		var posDiv = locateStoreArea(original);
		if((posDiv[0] == -1) || (posDiv[1] == -1)) {
			alert(config.messages.invalidFileError.format([localPath]));
			return;
		}
		bidix.upload.uploadRss(uploadParams,original,posDiv);
	};
	
	if(onlyIfDirty && !store.isDirty())
		return;
	clearMessage();
	// save on localdisk ?
	if (document.location.toString().substr(0,4) == "file") {
		var path = document.location.toString();
		var localPath = getLocalPath(path);
		saveChanges();
	}
	// get original
	var uploadParams = new Array(storeUrl,toFilename,uploadDir,backupDir,username,password);
	var originalPath = document.location.toString();
	// If url is a directory : add index.html
	if (originalPath.charAt(originalPath.length-1) == "/")
		originalPath = originalPath + "index.html";
	var dest = config.macros.upload.destFile(storeUrl,toFilename,uploadDir);
	var log = new bidix.UploadLog();
	log.startUpload(storeUrl, dest, uploadDir,  backupDir);
	displayMessage(bidix.upload.messages.aboutToSaveOnHttpPost.format([dest]));
	if (bidix.debugMode) 
		alert("about to execute Http - GET on "+originalPath);
	var r = doHttp("GET",originalPath,null,null,username,password,callback,uploadParams,null);
	if (typeof r == "string")
		displayMessage(r);
	return r;
};

bidix.upload.uploadRss = function(uploadParams,original,posDiv) 
{
	var callback = function(status,params,responseText,url,xhr) {
		if(status) {
			var destfile = responseText.substring(responseText.indexOf("destfile:")+9,responseText.indexOf("\n", responseText.indexOf("destfile:")));
			displayMessage(bidix.upload.messages.rssSaved,bidix.dirname(url)+'/'+destfile);
			bidix.upload.uploadMain(params[0],params[1],params[2]);
		} else {
			displayMessage(bidix.upload.messages.rssFailed);			
		}
	};
	// do uploadRss
	if(config.options.chkGenerateAnRssFeed) {
		var rssPath = uploadParams[1].substr(0,uploadParams[1].lastIndexOf(".")) + ".xml";
		var rssUploadParams = new Array(uploadParams[0],rssPath,uploadParams[2],'',uploadParams[4],uploadParams[5]);
		var rssString = generateRss();
		// no UnicodeToUTF8 conversion needed when location is "file" !!!
		if (document.location.toString().substr(0,4) != "file")
			rssString = convertUnicodeToUTF8(rssString);	
		bidix.upload.httpUpload(rssUploadParams,rssString,callback,Array(uploadParams,original,posDiv));
	} else {
		bidix.upload.uploadMain(uploadParams,original,posDiv);
	}
};

bidix.upload.uploadMain = function(uploadParams,original,posDiv) 
{
	var callback = function(status,params,responseText,url,xhr) {
		var log = new bidix.UploadLog();
		if(status) {
			// if backupDir specified
			if ((params[3]) && (responseText.indexOf("backupfile:") > -1))  {
				var backupfile = responseText.substring(responseText.indexOf("backupfile:")+11,responseText.indexOf("\n", responseText.indexOf("backupfile:")));
				displayMessage(bidix.upload.messages.backupSaved,bidix.dirname(url)+'/'+backupfile);
			}
			var destfile = responseText.substring(responseText.indexOf("destfile:")+9,responseText.indexOf("\n", responseText.indexOf("destfile:")));
			displayMessage(bidix.upload.messages.mainSaved,bidix.dirname(url)+'/'+destfile);
			store.setDirty(false);
			log.endUpload("ok");
		} else {
			alert(bidix.upload.messages.mainFailed);
			displayMessage(bidix.upload.messages.mainFailed);
			log.endUpload("failed");			
		}
	};
	// do uploadMain
	var revised = bidix.upload.updateOriginal(original,posDiv);
	bidix.upload.httpUpload(uploadParams,revised,callback,uploadParams);
};

bidix.upload.httpUpload = function(uploadParams,data,callback,params)
{
	var localCallback = function(status,params,responseText,url,xhr) {
		url = (url.indexOf("nocache=") < 0 ? url : url.substring(0,url.indexOf("nocache=")-1));
		if (xhr.status == 404)
			alert(bidix.upload.messages.storePhpNotFound.format([url]));
		if ((bidix.debugMode) || (responseText.indexOf("Debug mode") >= 0 )) {
			alert(responseText);
			if (responseText.indexOf("Debug mode") >= 0 )
				responseText = responseText.substring(responseText.indexOf("\n\n")+2);
		} else if (responseText.charAt(0) != '0') 
			alert(responseText);
		if (responseText.charAt(0) != '0')
			status = null;
		callback(status,params,responseText,url,xhr);
	};
	// do httpUpload
	var boundary = "---------------------------"+"AaB03x";	
	var uploadFormName = "UploadPlugin";
	// compose headers data
	var sheader = "";
	sheader += "--" + boundary + "\r\nContent-disposition: form-data; name=\"";
	sheader += uploadFormName +"\"\r\n\r\n";
	sheader += "backupDir="+uploadParams[3] +
				";user=" + uploadParams[4] +
				";password=" + uploadParams[5] +
				";uploaddir=" + uploadParams[2];
	if (bidix.debugMode)
		sheader += ";debug=1";
	sheader += ";;\r\n"; 
	sheader += "\r\n" + "--" + boundary + "\r\n";
	sheader += "Content-disposition: form-data; name=\"userfile\"; filename=\""+uploadParams[1]+"\"\r\n";
	sheader += "Content-Type: text/html;charset=UTF-8" + "\r\n";
	sheader += "Content-Length: " + data.length + "\r\n\r\n";
	// compose trailer data
	var strailer = new String();
	strailer = "\r\n--" + boundary + "--\r\n";
	data = sheader + data + strailer;
	if (bidix.debugMode) alert("about to execute Http - POST on "+uploadParams[0]+"\n with \n"+data.substr(0,500)+ " ... ");
	var r = doHttp("POST",uploadParams[0],data,"multipart/form-data; ;charset=UTF-8; boundary="+boundary,uploadParams[4],uploadParams[5],localCallback,params,null);
	if (typeof r == "string")
		displayMessage(r);
	return r;
};

// same as Saving's updateOriginal but without convertUnicodeToUTF8 calls
bidix.upload.updateOriginal = function(original, posDiv)
{
	if (!posDiv)
		posDiv = locateStoreArea(original);
	if((posDiv[0] == -1) || (posDiv[1] == -1)) {
		alert(config.messages.invalidFileError.format([localPath]));
		return;
	}
	var revised = original.substr(0,posDiv[0] + startSaveArea.length) + "\n" +
				store.allTiddlersAsHtml() + "\n" +
				original.substr(posDiv[1]);
	var newSiteTitle = getPageTitle().htmlEncode();
	revised = revised.replaceChunk("<title"+">","</title"+">"," " + newSiteTitle + " ");
	revised = updateMarkupBlock(revised,"PRE-HEAD","MarkupPreHead");
	revised = updateMarkupBlock(revised,"POST-HEAD","MarkupPostHead");
	revised = updateMarkupBlock(revised,"PRE-BODY","MarkupPreBody");
	revised = updateMarkupBlock(revised,"POST-SCRIPT","MarkupPostBody");
	return revised;
};

//
// UploadLog
// 
// config.options.chkUploadLog :
//		false : no logging
//		true : logging
// config.options.txtUploadLogMaxLine :
//		-1 : no limit
//      0 :  no Log lines but UploadLog is still in place
//		n :  the last n lines are only kept
//		NaN : no limit (-1)

bidix.UploadLog = function() {
	if (!config.options.chkUploadLog) 
		return; // this.tiddler = null
	this.tiddler = store.getTiddler("UploadLog");
	if (!this.tiddler) {
		this.tiddler = new Tiddler();
		this.tiddler.title = "UploadLog";
		this.tiddler.text = "| !date | !user | !location | !storeUrl | !uploadDir | !toFilename | !backupdir | !origin |";
		this.tiddler.created = new Date();
		this.tiddler.modifier = config.options.txtUserName;
		this.tiddler.modified = new Date();
		store.addTiddler(this.tiddler);
	}
	return this;
};

bidix.UploadLog.prototype.addText = function(text) {
	if (!this.tiddler)
		return;
	// retrieve maxLine when we need it
	var maxLine = parseInt(config.options.txtUploadLogMaxLine,10);
	if (isNaN(maxLine))
		maxLine = -1;
	// add text
	if (maxLine != 0) 
		this.tiddler.text = this.tiddler.text + text;
	// Trunck to maxLine
	if (maxLine >= 0) {
		var textArray = this.tiddler.text.split('\n');
		if (textArray.length > maxLine + 1)
			textArray.splice(1,textArray.length-1-maxLine);
			this.tiddler.text = textArray.join('\n');		
	}
	// update tiddler fields
	this.tiddler.modifier = config.options.txtUserName;
	this.tiddler.modified = new Date();
	store.addTiddler(this.tiddler);
	// refresh and notifiy for immediate update
	story.refreshTiddler(this.tiddler.title);
	store.notify(this.tiddler.title, true);
};

bidix.UploadLog.prototype.startUpload = function(storeUrl, toFilename, uploadDir,  backupDir) {
	if (!this.tiddler)
		return;
	var now = new Date();
	var text = "\n| ";
	var filename = bidix.basename(document.location.toString());
	if (!filename) filename = '/';
	text += now.formatString("0DD/0MM/YYYY 0hh:0mm:0ss") +" | ";
	text += config.options.txtUserName + " | ";
	text += "[["+filename+"|"+location + "]] |";
	text += " [[" + bidix.basename(storeUrl) + "|" + storeUrl + "]] | ";
	text += uploadDir + " | ";
	text += "[[" + bidix.basename(toFilename) + " | " +toFilename + "]] | ";
	text += backupDir + " |";
	this.addText(text);
};

bidix.UploadLog.prototype.endUpload = function(status) {
	if (!this.tiddler)
		return;
	this.addText(" "+status+" |");
};

//
// Utilities
// 

bidix.checkPlugin = function(plugin, major, minor, revision) {
	var ext = version.extensions[plugin];
	if (!
		(ext  && 
			((ext.major > major) || 
			((ext.major == major) && (ext.minor > minor))  ||
			((ext.major == major) && (ext.minor == minor) && (ext.revision >= revision))))) {
			// write error in PluginManager
			if (pluginInfo)
				pluginInfo.log.push("Requires " + plugin + " " + major + "." + minor + "." + revision);
			eval(plugin); // generate an error : "Error: ReferenceError: xxxx is not defined"
	}
};

bidix.dirname = function(filePath) {
	if (!filePath) 
		return;
	var lastpos;
	if ((lastpos = filePath.lastIndexOf("/")) != -1) {
		return filePath.substring(0, lastpos);
	} else {
		return filePath.substring(0, filePath.lastIndexOf("\\"));
	}
};

bidix.basename = function(filePath) {
	if (!filePath) 
		return;
	var lastpos;
	if ((lastpos = filePath.lastIndexOf("#")) != -1) 
		filePath = filePath.substring(0, lastpos);
	if ((lastpos = filePath.lastIndexOf("/")) != -1) {
		return filePath.substring(lastpos + 1);
	} else
		return filePath.substring(filePath.lastIndexOf("\\")+1);
};

bidix.initOption = function(name,value) {
	if (!config.options[name])
		config.options[name] = value;
};

//
// Initializations
//

// require PasswordOptionPlugin 1.0.1 or better
bidix.checkPlugin("PasswordOptionPlugin", 1, 0, 1);

// styleSheet
setStylesheet('.txtUploadStoreUrl, .txtUploadBackupDir, .txtUploadDir {width: 22em;}',"uploadPluginStyles");

//optionsDesc
merge(config.optionsDesc,{
	txtUploadStoreUrl: "Url of the UploadService script (default: store.php)",
	txtUploadFilename: "Filename of the uploaded file (default: in index.html)",
	txtUploadDir: "Relative Directory where to store the file (default: . (downloadService directory))",
	txtUploadBackupDir: "Relative Directory where to backup the file. If empty no backup. (default: ''(empty))",
	txtUploadUserName: "Upload Username",
	pasUploadPassword: "Upload Password",
	chkUploadLog: "do Logging in UploadLog (default: true)",
	txtUploadLogMaxLine: "Maximum of lines in UploadLog (default: 10)"
});

// Options Initializations
bidix.initOption('txtUploadStoreUrl','');
bidix.initOption('txtUploadFilename','');
bidix.initOption('txtUploadDir','');
bidix.initOption('txtUploadBackupDir','');
bidix.initOption('txtUploadUserName','');
bidix.initOption('pasUploadPassword','');
bidix.initOption('chkUploadLog',true);
bidix.initOption('txtUploadLogMaxLine','10');


// Backstage
merge(config.tasks,{
	uploadOptions: {text: "upload", tooltip: "Change UploadOptions and Upload", content: '<<uploadOptions>>'}
});
config.backstageTasks.push("uploadOptions");


//}}}

This is a multi-level personal project. 

Firstly, I want to try and make sense of [[philosophy]]; it can't all be [[rubbish]]. (That's a joke, Joyce.) What I do know is that it's so long ago that I first framed the question, "What is the I that says I am", that I have forgotten when it was. In the backyard, probably. At Mum's. When I should have been thinking about cricket. And despite those, maybe 40, intervening years, the question still nags at me. Even though I suspect (strongly) that there is no good answer - in fact, I'm suspicious of the question. Psychology, for all the growth of its claims during the 20th century, seems to beg the question; perhaps that's a sign that my suspicions are well founded. But part of me, here in this little outpost of the Western world, can't escape the //[[cogito]]//. So I'm stuck. Forty years trying to avoid the problem, and still, no way out. I have to finalise this. Which, I fully realise, may only be the finality of saying, well, we can go no further down this path.

Secondly, I want to examine some of my intuitions, particularly about the nature of [[knowledge]] and the nature of [[text]]. 

Thirdly, I need writing practice. 

Fourthly, it's time I learned javascript - so the platform is of interest as well. I don't think there is a fifthly.

(please acknowledge your use of this website - if that happens - and note that copyright is asserted)
Can't quite work this one out yet.
Any word implying certainty in this text should be read as ironic if at all possible.
//cogito ergo sum//: I'm sure I wouldn't be the first to ask if Western philosophy ever recovered, or ever will recover, from Rene's pithy little apophthegm. Perhaps that's a little melodramatic. I should probably read it again before expounding at length: I wonder if it's better to read it in Latin (or French) or translation? I looked at the Latin once & it didn't seem particularly difficult.

Anyway, I have a number of objections to "I think, therefore I am". The first problem is the "therefore". "I think entails I am" would be more neutral; less imposing of the appearance of logic at work. Descartes apparently recognised the force of that criticism and was prepared to reformulate it to "I think, I am". What this established, apart from the existence of the "I" that thinks, is that is possible to rely on self-evident propositions as the foundations of an argument: that proved to be its own slippery slope. [[Hume|HumeNotes]] refuted Descartes' proof of god (simply, that it was self-evidently true) by happily asserting that (despite his - Hume's - profession) he found the non-existence of god to be equally self-evident.

Nietzsche's objection was that it was just grammar; of course, Nietzsche started life as a philologist, so it's a point that bears thinking about.

Perhaps "There is thinking, which requires a thinker" would do; but Nietzsche's criticism is more subtle than that: he challenges the "I" to recognise thinking, which is twofold. It assumes that there is something called thinking, and that it can be identified. More criticisms have been levelled, substantially along these lines, by [[Williams|WilliamsNotes]], [[Gassendi|GassendiNotes]], and [[Lichtenberg|LichtenbergNotes]].

[[Kierkegaard|KierkegaardNotes]] simply claims that thinking presupposes "I"; he is happy with the proposition as psychologically true, but asserts that the "I" precedes the thinking. "I exist" is the first thought - precedes thought.

This reminds me of a [[problem|MorphemeOrder]]... 

OK, well, it's not that simple is it? In fact, philosophy has always contested Descartes' //cogito// for pretty solid reasons. But I find [[Hiintikka|HiintikkaNotes]]'s position fairly persuasive; one's own existence is a given. In a way you might say that Descartes exploited the intuitive persuasive force of one's personal existence to ground his ideas of "simplicity" and "clarity" (and maybe "necessity"). The real damage was done with them. The philosopher's common sense...

Do I need to look at the distinction between asserting one's existence, and existence //in essentia//?
I have an idea that infinity, or the battle against infinity, is going to be very important. My intuition is that all "theorising" (which may mean action, if theory in a sense determines reality) is potentially infinite, but it is not convenient to wait for an infinite amount of time to resolve one part of a theory, so a resolution needs to be made; thus the infinite chain is "arbitrarily" terminated. We are seeking a principled way to be arbitrary. Take games playing: I think that he thinks that I think that he think... It's not productive. (They have time limits to FORCE its unproductivity).

This connects to my (said it somewhere else?) idea about (left-dislocations?) He the dog the cat bit was running away chased. Two can be managed easily - the dog the cat bit was running away. Three is next to impossible in real time. So although the recursion (of the apposition) at play is potentially infinite, processing problems enforce a limit. The connection comes from the idea that maybe the brain resists recursion/infinity, and just drops out, leaving you - unwittingly - in one of your early levels. Hofstader was carrying on about meta-levels, in GEB, but I don't recall him making this point.
Knowledge is justified true belief, they say. I prefer "warranted" to "justified". There's a self-righteousness about justified that I don't like. When you look closely at the problems of epistemology, self-righteousness looks like it might be a defense to the general unsatisfactoriness of the project. In fact, epistemology provides a clear basis for understanding what is not knowledge - but you have to defend your knowledge on some other basis.

Warranted true belief. Warranted excludes self-warranted. The warrant therefore is a third element; me, my belief, the warrant. Where does it come from? Either I created it, or someone gave it to me because I excluded self-warranty (curiously, that term appears to have two meanings. The belief does not create the warrant was my first, intended meaning, but also, the warrant doesn't create itself. Is that second meaning given, or does it require defence?)

There is also a problem of in what way a belief can be separate from me, the holder of that belief.  I mean, I could write it down on a piece of paper.  That doesn't seem to solve anything though. What if my belief changed? A curious language problem - did my belief change itself? I changed my belief, My belief changed, My belief was changed...are they three different ways to say the same thing? [[Agency]], what to make of agency?

[[Infinite chain of warrants]].

[[Theory]]

For me, personally, before (I think) I even had an idea of what philosophy was, the first, in the sense "first" has of "primary", philosophical question was, and remains "What is the ''I'' that says '''I'''?". That's a barnacled old sentence - //pace// Ondaatje - but I reserve the right to be hesitant, to qualify, to re-write. I don't want to disguise - not wholly - the doubts and uncertainties, the ignorances and the errors. 

Anyway, I guess that overlaps with the //[[cogito]]//. 

William [[James|JamesNotes]] said that the details of a philosophy were largely a matter of the personality of the philosopher. He was specifically talking about the difference between idealists and materialists, and he was talking in 1908(?), but there's something unusually balanced about that remark. Or is it just a matter of [[rhetoric]]al strategy? Defuse the tension, reduce the conflict: then proceed to lecture as if only one framework - his own - is remotely sensible. Which is what, in fact, he does. Philosophy, then, for William James, that seemingly well-balanced gentleman, is not about truth. It's about argument. Winning the argument. 
OK, obviously rubbish is a bit harsh. But it could have been worse. James Joyce called creative output "shit", and who knew better than he? At least "rubbish" suggests that there was once a form, a structure. Rubbish comes from somewhere, something //used//. And anyway, I'm crawling around in the muck with everybody else, so there's no need to get offended.

Sometimes I think philosophy is a waste of time; it produces no final answers and at best occasionally provides high quality (so at least it does something well) weapons to defenders of indifferent truths. Never a tyrant without a tame philosopher. But maybe there are no final answers. And perhaps it is useful to know the difference between a good quality question and a bad quality question. Excavating the rubbish - well, archaeology is not such an unrespectable profession.

<<comments>>
#entia non sunt multiplicanda praeter necessitatem 
#pluralitas non est ponenda sine necessitate
#numquam ponenda est pluralitas sine necessitate 
#frustra fit per plura quod potest fieri per pauciora

But see: Popper, Sober (Elliot) & Swinburne (Richard)
The social construction of knowledge seems to be to be a relatively trivial idea that is randomly abused by people who think it is hugely significant. If it's true - and "trivial" includes truth, as any mathematician will tell you - then all knowledge was, is and will always be socially constructed. Dewey seems to get the credit for noticing this - although I suspect many knew it before him - and sometimes I get the feeling that people think pre-Dewey knowledge isn't knowledge any more because it wasn't socially constructed because no-one knew that's how knowledge had to be created. It's a kind of insane modernism.

Newton may not have realized that his Optics were socially constructed, but that is a failure of his noticing rather than a failure of the Optics. (I doubt, in fact, that a man who reputedly said "...I have stood on the shoulders of giants" was wholly unaware of the social dimensions of the scientific endeavour). If you sit down to learn the Optics, you will know a lot about light. You will have pre-Dewey knowledge, precisely as correct now as it was in 1704.

[[Philosophy]] is about language; it's about what can be said about the world. Perhaps it's more precise to say that it's what can be written about the world, but I'm going to pretend, for the time being, that "text" covers equally written and spoken output, of, let's say, the human animal. I'm also going to assume that there is no difference between written and spoken texts, in this context. I reserve the right to change that approach: after all, if Rene is pissed and mouthing off the //[[cogito]]// down the local boozer, it's not the same text as the one lying around in the local library, unborrowed for 27 years. And at the heart of my views about text is the idea that context is all, a kind of meta-context, both the reader's context and the text's; the significance of the writer's context is more fraught but it has to be acknowledged that at least for some readers, the writer's context /is/ significant and on that basis an apprehension - I could say a construction - of the writer's context is sometimes significant.

Texts are slippery things; even a physical text is a slippery thing. It's not difficult to track down academic animus on what should be deemed to be the canonical physical text; to some extent that reflects the emotional strength of their commitment to the idea that there is one canonical text, although it also reflects commitment to one's sense-of-self. The twentieth century gifted us the idea that perhaps the canonical physical text wasn't a very useful idea. Even if one could be constructed, a physical text unconsumed has no [[existence]]. And, consumed, the text has produced a competitor, text-as-consumed-by-reader-//x//-on-occasion-//y//. Even with this very simplistic model, there's a rapid - geometric - increase in the number of texts.

That's only the beginning, of course. Where is this text-as-consumed-etc? For me, that's a problem which I will come back to, related to problems I have with the idea of [[knowledge]], but let's say that it's somewhere in the reader. Can it be extracted? Yes, but only if the reader becomes a writer and produces another text. In fact, I want to say that there is nothing in the reader unles it can be extracted as text; that's a bit of a jump from where I am know, but I want to give a sense of the destination. //''text''// is everything.