Re: Topic :> Dynamics Of Ontologies

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Topic :> Dynamics Of Ontologies 3

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The most compelling pressures on our theories of being,
whether to change or to stay the same, bear on us from
the direction of what is commonly described as Reality.

No sooner do we say this, and by this to say we reproduce in the
experiments of our present imagination the results of that trite
but true observation, than we find ourselves facing this dilemma:

| What is a Reality that a Theory may fit it?
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| What is a Theory that a Reality may fit it?

I think it is clearly apprehended by all clear-headed thinkers that,
however Reality may elect to impress itself on the sentient tissues
of we peculiar species of creatures who secrete the exoskeletons of
Theory in anticipatory defence or protective coloration against the
batteries of assaultations that impinge on us from its source, that
we cannot begin to reflect, and far less critically reflect, on the
fit between Reality and Theory except by dint of yet another Theory.

So it comes to pass, at this juncture, that all critical reflection
on the fit between Reality and Theory is concerned with comparisons
between Theory_1 and Theory_2 in regard to their respective fitness,
in regard to what, you say, well, Reality, of course.

Jon Awbrey

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