[ontology-summit] glossary of complexity terms

[Gary Berg-Cross <gbergcross@xxxxxxxxx>]

A glossary of terms dealing with complexity is available on J.N. Warfield's site about Understanding
  Complexity; Thought and Behavior (http://www.isss.org/members/papers/WPOCcontents.htm#anchor3341443).

Warfield's work was one of the books listed in a previous ontology summit post on relevant work.

He does, for example, attempt a definition of the psychology experience of complexity - when things are judged hard which had a glancing mention in the ontology summit chat session.

"Complexity is that sensation
  experienced in the human mind when, in observing or considering a system,
  frustration arises from lack of comprehension of what is being explored.
  While this definition may be thought surprising, one of its notable attributes
  is that it allows for the possibility that complexity may be reduced or
  even eliminated, at least for some human beings, by a process called "learning".
  " p20.

Gary Berg-Cross

On Thu, Jan 19, 2012 at 7:52 PM, Godfrey Rust <godfrey.rust@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

Thanks for posting this Ron, it's delightful. Not sure that it's entirely an ontologist's nightmare, as it's mostly a set of clearly defined and exemplified terms which are better source material than ontologists often get to work with. Nor would I say it's especially bizarre. Any established enterprise or domain of interest has complex cultural 'spins', including double-meaning and irony, in its real use of terminology; it's just that these are not often documented in any orderly way. An ontological challenge that exemplifies how complex knowledge representation is. I'm not sure why anyone would want to formalise all of it, though, except as an exercise in semantic masochism :-)

 

And some pleasing jokes. We particularly liked  artificial intelligence n. The opposite of natural silliness.

 

Godfrey

 

 

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Subject: [ontolog-forum] glossary of IBM's computer terms

> http://www-03.ibm.com/ibm/history/documents/pdf/glossary.pdf
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> This is an interesting document from IBM's history web site describing
> various computer terms.
>
> It is missing a lot of stuff but among the technical bits such as
> "packet internet groper" and "entity" it includes definitions of "warm
> fuzzies",  "wing-tip warrior", "power suit", "penalty box" and "opportunity"
>
> A bizarre insight into a company's perspective on the world of computing.
>
> Ontologists nightmare.
>
> Ron
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