(Warfield's handwritten note at the top of this printed manuscript is "A Disconnected First Draft" ) This manuscript was completed 15 November 1996. I am sure of that because that is the date on the original file on Warfield's computer. A preliminary statement in the document itself says "Begun November 13, 1996 to be presented at NASA SHORT COURSE, Norfolk, VA." Actually, Warfield did present a talk for NASA at Norfolk, on 19 November 1996, but his presentation titled "Contrasts" was completely different from this paper. So apparently he did not use this material for NASA, AT LEAST NOT IN NOVEMBER 1996. Perhaps he was not satisfied with it because it was "disconnected." Anyhow he never gave such a talk for NASA according to my records, but might have used the material elsewhere. Warfield looked at the manuscript in 2001 when I was cataloging it and says he doesn't remember.

Quote of first paragraph: "Cognitive viability refers to some concept or conceptual system, call it X. To say that X is cognitively viable means that these three criteria are all satisfied:

C1. X can be thoroughly articulated; C2. As a consequence of having been articulated, X is learnable; C3. As a consequence of being learnable, X can be applied effectively in practice.

If we say that X is not cognitively viable, then we mean that at least one of these three criteria is not satisfied."

The paper consists of five or 6 pages typed of manuscript, followed by a series of tables & display pages, intended as transparencies to be used with the talk. TABLE 1. ASSETS and KEY WORDS IN ATTAINING COGNITIVE VIABILITY; TABLE 2. LIABILITIES and KEY WORDS IN ATTAINING COGNITIVE VIABILITY; Figure 1. Behavioral Components of Inquiry, and Related Questions; Figure 2. The Four Components of the Work Program of Complexity in Systems Terms; Display page: VISUAL REPRESENTATION OF VOTING RECORDS; Display page: FIVE KEY ACTIVITIES WITH IDEAS.