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#structure
Epigrams On Programming
On structuring data
Functions delay binding: data structures induce binding. Moral: Structure data late in the programming process.
Life, The Multiverse And Everything: An Introduction To The Ideas Of Humberto Maturana Interpreting Maturana
Composite unities have organization and structure; structure
`Structure' refers to the actual components and the actual relations that realise a particular composite unity. While the organization is necessarily invariant (to conserve identity) structure is not. Structure is in continual change. Structure entails many more dimensions…
What science does
Science can only deal with structure-determined systems, with composite entities, i.e. with systems whose structures determine what will happen. [In proposing a generative mechanism as an explanation for the phenomenon to be explained science always proposes a…
For any system there are four initial questions which we may ask:
(1) What type of System is it? How is it defined? (2) What is its Organisation and Structure ? (3) Am I interacting with it as a Simple or Composite unity? If I am in the domain in which the system is a simple unity, I interact with the system through its properties as a…
Structural determinism, main points
(1) Interactions in the medium only trigger structural changes of composite unities. (2) The structure of the system fully determines its interactions by specifying the variety of interactions it can undertake. (3) The structure of the system specifies what it will accept as an…
Mind: A Brief Introduction (John R. Searle)
The gestalt structure of consciousness
Our conscious experiences do not just come to us as a disorganized mess; rather they typically come to us with well-defined, and sometimes even precise, structures. We do not, for example, in normal vision see undifferentiated blurs and fragments; rather, we see tables, chairs…
The formal structure of intentional states
At this point, it seems to me the best thing I can do is describe the formal structure of intentional states, because we will not get a grasp on how intentionality functions, until we see the structural features of intentional states, such as beliefs and desires, hopes and…
Intentionality is representation of conditions of satisfaction
I have given a very brief sketch of the formal structure of intentionality. We can summarize it as follows. For any intentional state, there is a distinction between the type of state it is, and its content. Where the content is a whole proposition, it will represent states of…
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…
Research Fronts 2014 : 100 Top Ranked Specialties In The Sciences And Social
Small's co-citation analysis maps scientific specialties
In 1973, Small published a paper that was as groundbreaking in its own way as Garfield’s 1955 paper introducing citation indexing for science. This paper, “Co-citation in the scientific literature: a new measure of relationship between two documents,” introduced A new era in…
The Book: On The Taboo Against Knowing Who You Are
Describing the ant means describing its environment
The more detailed the description of our ant’s behavior becomes, the more it has to include such matters as density, humidity, and temperature of the surrounding atmosphere, the types and sources of its food, the social structure of its own species, and that of neighboring…
The Ego Trick (baggini, Julian)
Nested hierarchies
there is another kind of hierarchy: one which is nested. Nested hierarchies can be visualised as concentric circles, with the smallest circle in the centre at the ‘bottom’ of the hierarchy and the largest, outer circle at the ‘top’ of it. To say such a hierarchy is nested is…
Stability without a core
‘There’s a stability and it’s actually like the stability of everything else in this world. It’s like the stability of the ship of Theseus. There’s no core of the ship of Theseus, but there are some parts that last longer than others and there’s an overall structure and if you…
The Tao Of Topic Maps
Topic maps as an ISO standard
Topic maps are a new ISO standard for describing knowledge structures and associating them with information resources. As such they constitute an enabling technology for knowledge management. Dubbed “the GPS of the information universe”, topic maps are also destined to provide…