Re: Topic :> Dynamics Of Ontologies

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Topic :> Dynamics Of Ontologies 4

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So far I've been using the words "Reality" and "Theory" in what
may be seen to verge on their broadest and their vaguest senses.
An invocation of reality is really just an index of a yet to be
determined object, a pointer to something out there that may or
may not fit the description that happens to be given of it, and
a Theory, at this early stage of discussion, could just as well
be an Account, a Dataset, a Description, a Narrative, a Picture,
or a Story.  When I want to speak of theories of specific forms
I'll give them more descriptive names, like zeroth order theory,
first order theory, higher order theory, or mathematical theory,
just to name a few.

By way of descending from these clouds of vaguely glowing terms,
I'll borrow the ballast of a simple but solid example of theory
dynamics from the conference presentation that Susan Awbrey and
I gave on the topic of a prospective "Architecture For Inquiry".
Here's the paper that we gave with the gif nicely wrapped in it:

http://suo.ieee.org/ontology/msg05228.html
http://suo.ieee.org/ontology/gif00001.gif

And here is the stick-figure rendering of the principal figure:

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|                                                           |
|                              Induction                    |
|                 Model  3<----------------->1  Phenomenon  |
|                       ^                 < ^               |
|                      ^               <   ^                |
|                     ^             <     ^                 |
|                    ^           <       ^                  |
|        Deduction  ^     Abduction     ^  Deduction        |
|                  ^       <           ^                    |
|                 ^     <             ^                     |
|                ^   <               ^                      |
|               ^ <                 ^                       |
|  Expressed  2<----------------->4  Implicit               |
|  Theory         Clarification      Knowledge              |
|                                                           |
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Figure 1.  Dynamics of Inquiry

I will continue from here next time.

Jon Awbrey

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