MW.
Neither would I.
However, I am not addressing how models are used. I am addressing how models
occur. The Stork doesn't bring them.
Cars are used to go to the grocery store and I would not call that designing a
car. But the car was designed and the car design morphed through about seven
stages until it got to manufacturing expressed as Bill of Materials and
Routings.
cheers,
Jack (01)
ps; an ontology is a model of a piece of reality. Do we design ontologies? (02)
On Mar 4, 2011, at 12:51 AM, Matthew West wrote: (03)
> Dear Jack,
>
> You said:
>
>> When you precis that, you get models. if models come from designing then
> how
>> does modeling differ from design?
>
> MW: Models can also be used for analysis, to try to understand how things
> are, rather than how you intend things to be. I would not call that design.
>
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