nature -> "human brain" -> "language terms" ==>> knowledge ?
"Alexander Povolotsky" <[email protected]> Tue, 15 Mar 2005 13:43:44 GMT
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Hello, I follow the concept that the human brain reflects on "nature" (as an objective reality). In its turn, the above reflection gets "captured" into the language terminology in some "raw" form. Below I propose the method of retrieving this "raw knowledge", being captured in the language terminology, via the means of the hierarchical classification of all terms (nouns - see below), contained in the given human language (say English Language as most scientifcally common). The suggested approach is based on the verb <-> noun grouping and is "stolen" by me from the Software Object Oriented representation of the class (object). In this particular adaption of the OO, the terms (nouns) are analogous to the object's data and the verbs are analogous to the "methods" (aka "member-functions") which could be applied to (performed on) the data. Suppose for each term (noun) avalable in the language, we will "gather" the set of all verbs, which could be applied to the given term (noun). Each set is corresponding to the unique noun, as it was described above - so the trees are built around nouns due to their one-to-one unique relationship with the given specific set of verbs. Then we could compare each generated (per above description) set against all other sets (separately on one-to-one basis) to find whether some sets of verbs could share the "common" subsets. Then we could attempt to detect whether some sets were derived (inherited) from the other sets so we would be able to build the hierarchical trees of such related sets. Actually, the nodes of the trees should contain the nouns (rather than corresponding sets of their verbs). The top node of each such tree would contain the set (actually uniquely corresponding to it noun as mentioned above), which would contain just the "common" subset of the verbs or the "minimum" number of verbs. Such noun with the "minimum" set of verbs has the highest level of the "abstraction" in the given tree. To complicate the "picture" the two nodes, which belong to two different trees, may "act" as "parents" nodes to generate the "child" node (Multiple Inheritance), etc. Further, some quantification of the "abstraction" value could be applied to each distinct tree - the "most bottom" node should have the "abstraction value" set to 0 (zero) and for each next higher level the "abstraction value" should be incremented by 1 (one). The above excercise, which I am suggesting to conduct - is not intended to develop some aid in processing human texts, except may be for the very small minor thing of being able to somewhat quantatively characterize the average level of abstraction, used in the text (and only if the text is recognized, using other cognitive means, as "scientific", covering certain domain(s) of the science). I "claim", however, that the terminology, developed historically in the > human language, "subconciously" reflects (without much of "distortion"/"noise") the objective fundamental reality of the nature, so the language's terms are in fact "synonyms" of the nature's attributes. So in that sense I believe my excercise could contribute to studying of the nature itself and its universal structure. I guess that the results obtained (as described above) could be analyzed using methods developed in the Theory of Graphs. Below is my view on classification of the knowledge : Currently human race uses two major levels of expressing the knowledge: 1) Textual expression - historically it was developed/used first, but it is rather "primitive": very context related, non- quantative, potentially being subject of uncertainties of interpretation(s), could be "false" in principle - hence the problems being dealt with, in the scientific application domain, (objectively speaking, this not a fundamental but application domain). This textually expressed knowledge is "acceptable" for the human specific utilitarian domains. However, when the textual knowledge addresses the fundamental areas/domains - it is (in my view) should be considered to be "preliminary", subject of "upgrading" into the mathematically expressed knowledge (see below). 2) Mathematically expressed knowledge (formulas) is: precise, quantative,(typically) proven by (based upon quantative) experimental data. This form of expressing the knowledge is used for describing the fundamentals of the nature (which is not necessary utilizable by humans and, by all means, often could not be utilized by the humans immediately). Theoretically, this mathematically expressed knowledge could "survive" beyond the "era" of the human race existence (dialectically speaking, everything starts, evolves and ends/gets "pre-empted"). Thanks, Best Regards, Alexander Povolotsky