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Designing A Url Structure For Bbc Programmes | Smethurst
Brand and series
So if series can be the top item in any family tree what’s the difference between series and brands? In all honesty I’m not sure and I never have been. The series / brand distinction is a hangover from SMEF and nobody seems to remember why it was invented. There was some talk…
From Encyclopedia To Ontology: Toward Dynamic Representation Of The Discipline Of Philosophy
Structural idea-types are used marginally
Information about the “idea type” is nonetheless useful for inferential purposes. For example, knowing whether an idea is of the type position or of the type distinction can constrain the types of relationships philosophers can have to it. The InPhO thus repre- sents this…
Life, The Multiverse And Everything: An Introduction To The Ideas Of Humberto Maturana Interpreting Maturana
Objects arise with language; language is a system of orienting behaviour
[...] objects arise with language. Objects are entities specified in the coordinations of coordinations of consensual actions. "...the participants of a consensual domain of interactions operate in their consensual behaviour making consensual distinctions of their consensual…
The illusion of independent existence
So objects arise in languaging and at the same time obscure the operations of distinction for which they stand. Hence we are left with these entities which seem to exist independently of everything. This illusion of independent existence is achieved because the objects obscure…
Multiversa
While the universum is the ultimate reference cited for the validity of any statement in the transcendental path, the Multiversa is entailed by the parenthetic path, and implies that a multiplicity of realities can be brought forth depending only on the distinctions of the…
Example of objects
When I use my pen to ink marks onto this piece of white paper, the action of writing or 'inking' is an operation of distinction whereby I bring forth the inked words on the page. So 'inking' as an action is the operation of distinction I can consensually enact and the inked…
The observer
An observer is any being who can be in language speaking with another ( or to himself) and making distinctions.
Mind: A Brief Introduction (John R. Searle)
The mental versus the physical
Now this simple contrast between our experiences and the world that exists independently of our experiences invites a characterization, and in our traditional vocabulary the most natural characterization is to say is that there is a distinction between the mental, on the one…
Observer-independent and observer-relative features
There are two distinctions that I want you to be clear about at the very beginning, because they are essential for the argument and because the failure to understand them has led to massive philosophical confusion. The first is the distinction between those features of a world…
The type-token distinction
In order to explain this distinction I need to say a bit about the type-token distinction. If I write the word “dog” three times: “dog dog dog,” have I written one word or three? Well, I have written three instances, or tokens, of one type of word. So we need a distinction…
Ontologies And Knowledge Bases: Towards A Terminological Clarification
General ontology vs regional ontology
Aristotle defined Ontology as the science of being as such: unlike the special sciences, each of which investigates a class of beings and their determinations, Ontology regards “all the species of being qua being and the attributes which belong to it qua being” (Aristotle…
Open Text - Wikipedia, The Free Encyclopedia
Open text (opera aperta)
In semiotic analysis, an open text is a text that allows multiple or mediated interpretation by the readers. In contrast, a closed text leads the reader to one intended interpretation. The concept of the open text comes from Umberto Eco's collection of essays The Role of the…
Shantaram (gregory David Roberts)
A restaurant missing from the guidebooks
Despite that distinction, or because of it, the Saurabh was small and relatively unknown. Its name didn’t appear in any of the guidebooks for tourists or the epicure columns in the daily newspapers.
The Ego Trick (baggini, Julian)
Mere constructs versus real constructions
idea of the self as a construction is one that many want to resist, because it seems to imply that it is not real. But of course constructions can be perfectly real. It is important to distinguish between ‘mere constructs’, which exist solely as ideas, and real constructions…
Quantitative versus qualitative identity
For philosophers, ‘identity’ comes in two main forms: quantitative and qualitative. Two or more things are qualitatively identical when interchanging them would make no difference. For instance, if you have two qualitatively identical bowling balls, it makes no difference which…