[xtm-wg] Re: The Nature of Things...

["Bernard Vatant" <universimmedia@wanadoo.fr>]

Even for apparently simple topics as "bowls", there is much more 
complexity than it may look to begin with.
See details at http://www.quicktopic.com/4/H/iDrkiq6meKMpRbho5Z6j

--- In xtm-wg@egroups.com, Jack Park <jackpark@v...> wrote:
> Ann,
> I am v. pleased that you provide me a hook with which to elaborate 
on my
> view.  You point out that Matthew provides a metaphysical 
underpinning
> suitable for effective modelling of _engineering_ systems.  I 
agree. I would
> claim that _engineering_ systems are primarily Newtonian in nature, 
while
> most other systems -- social, biological, political, and so forth --
 are
> not.  I would say, after Rosen, that _engineering_ systems are 
easy, the
> others are complex, and thus, not easy.  I believe that, in the 
grand scheme
> of things, we really ought to be thinking about modeling the hard 
things;
> the easy ones will fall out quite naturally.
> Cheers
> Jack
> 
> From: Wrightson, Ann <Ann.Wrightson@s...>
> > Jack...
> >
> > Yes, there are many views. Matthew's document is interesting 
because its
> > view provides a metaphysical underpinning suitable for effective 
modelling
> > of engineering systems. As I discussed in a (much) earlier mail I 
think,
> > there are different views which will be appropriate to other 
information
> > domains, eg legal. To me, utility in metaphysical views is itself 
an
> > interesting and distinctive perspective brought in by information
> modelling
> > - I believe that the question of engineering-style fitness-for-
purpose for
> > "a metaphysics" would have been v. strange to most of the authors 
I read
> for
> > my metaphysics course at University...
> >
> > Cheers
> >
> > Ann W.
> >



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