Re: Topic :> Dynamics Of Ontologies

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Topic :> Dynamics Of Ontologies 8

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Visible Inquiry

For the talk that we gave in Toronto in 1991, Sue and I worked up
a sequential overlay of transparencies for the overhead projector,
very reminiscent of the Visible This'N'Thats that we'd both found
so fascinating in the pictorial encyclopedias of our childhoods,
visibly articulating the anatomies of men and women and frogs
and spiders and engines of the internal combustion and ramjet
varieties for automobiles and aircraft and so on.  But now
our aim would be to render visible the anatomy and perhaps
some hint of the physiology of inquiry, at the very least,
a particular species of inquiry that occurs in the wild.

Or the wilds of the lab, if you catch my drift ...

By way of recreating for you the effect of our slide-show on Visible Inquiry,
I will go back to my last refinement of the Dynamics of Inquiry and build up
to it step by step, taking the typical steps in their typical order, so long
as we all understand, as anybody who's been through this ringer enough times
is bound to appreciate, that the process in practice is always much more apt
to be a bit of back and forth and jump ahead and circle around and reiterate
and reincrement until the reverbs settle down to structures more substantial.

Right after I get done wrapping up a few other packets ...

Jon Awbrey

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