Michele Pasin / Quotes

Parenthesising :

This clearly emerges from Maturana's theory concerning the ontology of the observer and underlying the fact that no objective reality exists independently of some observer. This view moves us to bracket or parenthesise all speaking and listening, all explanations, all descriptions, and to keep in the foreground the phenomenon of how objects come to obscure the operations of distinction of some observer who enacts these from a particular vantage point and with a particular intent.

Saved 29 June 2014 / www.oikos.org ↗

#theory #observer #description #phenomenon #objects

Reification and the reification quad

RDF applications sometimes need to describe other RDF statements using RDF, for instance, to record information about when statements were made, who made…

Rdf Primer #statements #description #properties #objects #applications #information

A complete account is more than a physical one

It should be clear that this argument simply repeats the kind of category mistake identified by Ryle. So it is true, as Swinburne says, that a physical…

The Ego Trick (baggini, Julian) #materialism #dualism #description #categories

RDF describes containers, it doesn't build them

When using RDF containers, it is important to understand that the statements are not constructing containers, as in a programming language data structure…

Rdf Primer #data-structure #structure #resources #description

Recursion

Recursion is the root of computation since it trades description for time.

Epigrams On Programming #time #roots #description #computation

Chronological reasoning in archaeology

Systems for chronological reasoning in archaeology typically concentrate on statistical approaches to date archeological strata. These approaches normally…

Thesauri Of Historical Periods – A Proposal For Standardization. #point #phenomenon #approach #system #maps

Periods are fuzzy but real

As culture evolves gradually, respective characteristics increase and decrease in frequency and strength. This makes the definition of a period necessar ily…

Thesauri Of Historical Periods – A Proposal For Standardization. #view #phenomenon