SUO: RE: Re: Suggestion On Situated And Substantial Sets
Jon,
1. You are delightful as usual. Good, and clever.
Also
2. John is right about the human expert and part/whole relation. If only we
could formulate precisely why "...auto mechanic has a much deeper
understanding of the part/whole relation than most of the people who have
been publishing papers
about mereology as a formal theory of parts" that would by a 'quantum jump'!
Edward Dawidowicz
US Army, CECOM, RDEC
Command and Control Directorate
Tel: (732) 427-4122 DSN 987-4122
Fax (732) 427-3440
E-Mail edward.dawidowicz@mail1.monmouth.army.mil
-----Original Message-----
From: Jon Awbrey [mailto:jawbrey@oakland.edu]
Sent: Tuesday, November 06, 2001 12:19 PM
To: John F Sowa
Cc: Stand Up Ontology
Subject: SUO: Re: Suggestion On Situated And Substantial Sets
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John F. Sowa wrote:
>
> As for knowledge about discrete things, I believe that a good
> auto mechanic has a much deeper understanding of the part/whole
> relation than most of the people who have been publishing papers
> about mereology as a formal theory of parts.
yes, but good auto mechanics
are getter somewhat scarcer
than good quantum mechanics
these days ...
jon
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