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From: "Kathryn Blackmond Laskey" <klaskey@xxxxxxx>
To: "[ontolog-forum] " <ontolog-forum@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Monday, August 06, 2007 10:51 PM
Subject: Re: [ontolog-forum] Model or Reality (was: Current Semantic Web
LayerCake) (01)
> At 10:23 PM +0300 8/6/07, Azamat wrote:
>>The citations of the day:
>>> As a human, I think that it should be possible to speak of
>>> one reality, as a computer scientist and engineers I see that it is not
>>> possible - and in my oppinion never will be possible - to reflect one
>>> reality in our systems, as all system are based on different
>>> conceptualizations.
>>
>>Reality is one as its true representation. Otherwise, your will have just
>>defective systems with ''different conceptualizations''.
>
> That reality is one does not imply there is one "true representation"
> of the one reality.
>
> - Some religious and spiritual traditions teach that there are
> aspects of the reality that cannot be described. (02)
There are reality and irreality. These traditions are dealing with
unreality; so they hardly ever can be right. (03)
If they are right,
> then there is no "true representation" of everything, although there
> may be "true representations" of describable aspects of reality.
>
> - There may be different ways to describe the same reality. One
> obvious example is matrix mechanics and wave mechanics. They are
> isomorphic representations, but they are not identical. Matrix
> mechanics represents quantum systems as infinite-dimensional vectors
> of complex numbers. Wave mechanics represents quantum systems as
> waves. (04)
This is just two complementary aspects of quantum systems, since theoretical
physics is a leading unifying science aiming to establish a single true
representation of all the fundamental forces. (05)
>
> K
>
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