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Re: ONT Re: Prospects for Inquiry Driven Systems


Jon Awbrey wrote:
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> PRO.  Discussion Note 1
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> MA = Murray Altheim
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> Re: PRO 46.  http://suo.ieee.org/ontology/msg05351.html
> In: PRO.     http://suo.ieee.org/ontology/thrd11.html#04671
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> MA: Before you travel further down this particular path, I wonder if you'd be
>     so kind as to relate your concept/discussion of "state" with the concept
>     of "context".  Is a "knowledge subspace" a contextualized space, in the
>     sense of contextualization per a specific individual, community, or
>     domain, or is it something else?
> 
> Sorry, Murray, you're already 'in medias res' -- but I imagine you knew that.
> This is the continuation of a thread that I started last Ides of March or so,
> and it's actually the "Interest Statement" that I attached to my application
> to Systems Engineering in the early 9O's -- they asked for a couple of pages,
> so naturally I gave them 50.
> 
> Here I'm talking about a "system" the way they do in mathematical systems 
 > theory.
 > [...]
> As far as the usual sort of "context" goes, it's a highly derivative notion.
> What's basic is the state of the agent, interpreter, observer, or system, as
> all of those names are just alternative figures of speech -- personifications
> or reifications of the underlying process.

Jon,

Ah, understood. (Trust me to jump in media res, esp. lately...)

Thanks for the clarification,

Murray

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Murray Altheim                    http://kmi.open.ac.uk/people/murray/
Knowledge Media Institute
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