Re: SUO: Re: Proposed SUO Content Outline
>Pat,
>
>I like your statement of the three possible outcomes of this
>effort, but I want to add a fourth, which I believe is much
>easier to attain than #1, much less dangerous than #2, and
>more hopeful than #3.
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>4. A framework is created which can support an open-ended
>number of theories (potentially infinite) organized in
>a lattice together with systematic metalevel techniques for
>moving from one to another, for testing their adequacy for
>any given problem, and for mixing, matching, combining, and
>transforming them to whatever form is appropriate for whatever
>problem anyone is trying to solve.
Great. That would be worth trying to do, I agree. As I said to Ian,
what we need is a clear methodology for achieving this. You are
probably closer to having said methodology than anyone else.
>The most complete formulation I have written so far (which is
>still very incomplete) is in my KR book, especially at the end
>of the Knowledge Soup chapter. I will be revising and restating
>much of that material and reposting it on my web site. As time
>and progress permits, I'll send further reports to the SUO list.
>
>And by the way, lattices, categories, differentiable manifolds,
>and semiotics are involved in this effort. But I hope I can
>explain them in a way that doesn't frighten people or horses.
I will try not to whinney.
Pat
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