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Epigrams On Programming
Recursion
Recursion is the root of computation since it trades description for time.
Life, The Multiverse And Everything: An Introduction To The Ideas Of Humberto Maturana Interpreting Maturana
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…
Rdf Primer
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. Instead, the statements are describing containers (groups of things) that presumably exist. [...] Saying that the resource…
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 them, or other similar information (this is sometimes referred to as "provenance" information). [...] RDF provides a…
The Ego Trick (baggini, Julian)
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 account of the world is not a complete account of the world. But it does not follow that the world is comprised of more stuff…