SUO: Re: Abstraction, Analogy, Example, Icon, Metaphor, Model, Morphism, Paradigm, Prototype, Simulation

[Jon Awbrey <jawbrey@oakland.edu>]

Jack Park wrote:
> 
> Jon,
> I would be very interested to persue a discussion of qualitative physics.
> Would that need to be conducted on a different venue?
> Jack Park
> 
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: Jon Awbrey <jawbrey@oakland.edu>
>
> <snippage>
>
> OK, this part I think I get, as I did spend some time studying
> the "Qualitative Physics" of Ken Forbus, Ben Kuipers, and others.
> But that was a long time ago, and my present approach to these
> issues has evolved quite a bit since then.  Let me know if you
> want to talk about that.

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Jack,

Like I wrote, my "quality time studies" were a bit of a while ago,
on diverge of which point I sought a road less weary of travelers,
jumped on my hobby horse and duly, diligently rode off into every
sunset at once, for all of the days between then, now, & que sera.
I will not try you further with this travelogue if what you desire
is something more known.  All of the names that I dropped along the
way retain their attachments to intrepid explorers who are much further
along their respective and their respectable paths than I have got along mine.
If they were sharp then, then I am certain that they will all have become all
that much smarter now, and so I rest content that I leave you in good company,
to wit:

<http://www.qrg.ils.nwu.edu/>

<http://www.cs.utexas.edu/users/qr/>

But I will toss out this one little teaser of a SOP to Cerberus:

Why did the world-picture in quantitative physics never quite run up against the frame?

Be Nimble, Be Quick,
Or Be Of Good Cheer,

Jon Awbrey

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