ONT Step By Step
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SBS. Note 1
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Dear Charles,
Well, the turkey is stuffed and in the oven, and I have
a bit of time before the next basting, so I will try to
catch up with some of your questions about the stepwise
method, as I have lately come to call it, though I want
to say that I have no objection to calling it the names
that you favor. I will first catch you up on my recent
thoughts, purely propadeutic if not a bit antiseptic in
character, as I realize that your lack of time to visit
very often, much less subscribe to the more active list
sites, may have left you a little bit in the dark as to
what I've been up to of late, which I am hopeful enough
to venture has led to a few positive developments since
the days when we were more regular correspondents about
the subjects of interest, and sad to say also, the lack
thereof, on the Main of the SUO List.
Here is the tenor of my last pre-ramble to this peculiar constitution:
| In: SUOPT Outline. http://suo.ieee.org/email/thrd1.html#11635
| Or: SUOPT Outline. http://suo.ieee.org/email/thrd2.html#11635
| Cf: SUOPT :> Development. http://suo.ieee.org/email/msg11858.html
| Cf: SUOPT :> Stepwise Development. http://suo.ieee.org/email/msg11859.html
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| 1. Development
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| What is development?
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| What is a development?
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| Nota Bene. I have introduced this topic, for the sake of its
| potential deployment in the Procedure discussion, principally
| as a logically prior "stepping stone" toward the more special
| topic of Stepwise Development, a term whose designations have
| been known to appear to different observers, within different
| frames of reference, and in benefice of different communities
| of interpretation under the protean names of bottom-up method,
| top-down method, and no doubt a legion of other epithets, and
| then there are those, who bring me to mind the inhabitants of
| our more happily moderate realms, who praise it as middle-out.
| Variant names are Stepwise Enrichment and Stepwise Refinement.
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| I plan to apply the general techniques of stepwise development
| to the problems of analysis and design that affect the use of
| both concepts and procedures, whether in ontological theories,
| computational programs, or the organizational programmes that
| we use to facilitate our collaborative work. And so now tuit.
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| 1.1. Stepwise Development
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| What is a stepwise development?
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| Nota Bene. Treat it as a stepping stone ...
| Not a corner stone ... Not a cap stone ...
| Not a tomb stone, with luck, not yet ...
| Think on these as stepping stones ...
Okay, that's as far as I've got this time around,
so now I'll run back through my chaotic files of
the notes that you've sent me over the last year
on this topic, and see if I can arrange and edit
them into some assemblance of a coherent organon.
But first, I have an appointment with a fifth-baked turkey --
yes, you guessed it, I'm using my old Jack Daniel's recipe.
Jon
PS. Insert your own joke about "slowly I turn ..."
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