OR -- ontologists ARE nature. Their effluent, ontologies, enable, or not,
knowledge exchange among humans and, if appropriately encoded, among machines.
Ontologies serve as patterns for engines that produce meaning. Ontologies
consist of triples that foster meaning only when interrelated to other triples
'just so.'
So the analogy is about the integrity of meanings as communicated by an
arrangement of signs. (01)
Perhaps Bucky was thinking with 'arrangements of relationships.' (02)
Regardless, the utility of an ontology lies not only in what it is but also,
and usually moreso, in what it does --- the effect it fosters. Most benefit
comes from all the "untruths" it rules out. (03)
On Feb 13, 2012, at 11:41 PM, Christopher Spottiswoode wrote: (04)
> Ahhh, but Bucky was building *in* nature, ontologists are dealing with
> abstractions *from* nature, representing things and always imperfectly.
> So the analogy is rather with computer graphics, where things are built
> up efficiently using triangles, including geodesic domes that appear as
> such.
>
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> Ahhh, but Bucky practiced a different kind of thinking than is practiced
> in the ontology, software and much of the systems community. He knew
> that triples are unstable. Notice the difference between layers,
> lattices, and geodesic domes.
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