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#artifacts
Beyond Zero and One (Andrew Smart)
There is no computation inside a computer
In an email discussion I had with Riccardo Manzotti, he writes: We use logic and computation to build artifacts—from chairs to spaceships. We need logic and computation as an extension of our innate mental tools. They help us to achieve the precision and generality that we need…
The Book: On The Taboo Against Knowing Who You Are
Our universe is thoroughly wiggly
Apart from such human artifacts as buildings and roads (especially Roman and American roads), our universe, including ourselves, is thoroughly wiggly.
Towards An Ontology Of Software: A Requirements Engineering Perspective
Code is not necessarily an artifact
In the light of these observations, a code is not necessarily an artifact. If we acci- dentally delete a line of code, the result might still be a computer code. It will not, however, be “intentionally made to serve a given purpose”. Moreover, we can clearly conceive the…
Artifacts have proper functions
notion of (technical) artifact. We are aware that many such notions have been discussed in the literature, but the one by Baker [20] works well for us: “Artifacts are objects intentionally made to serve a given purpose”; “Artifacts have proper functions that they are…