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| | 8 | = POSC-Caesar FIATECH IDS-ADI Projects = |
| | 9 | == Intelligent Data Sets Accelerating Deployment of ISO15926 == |
| | 10 | == ''Realizing Open Information Interoperability'' == |
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| | 14 | = Thought and Language = |
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| | 16 | Humans are not logical, humans think by making generalizations about observable patterns, and such generalizations need not be comprehensive; that is to say it is implicit that the generalizations are not intended to necessarily cover all cases. |
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| | 18 | Frequently, this means that humans hold to lore that while useful, might not be correct. But its usefulness extends beyond its value as an approximation, or a rule of thumb: it is useful because human languages makes it concise to communicate to other humans. |
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| | 20 | Fundamentally, patterns and generalizations are concise to communicate in human language because human language is based on the same principle - generalizations and analogies that are not intended to be either comprehensive in scope, or literal in application. For example: |
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| | 22 | "The apple doesn't fall far from the tree ..." |
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| | 24 | Humans will accept exceptions to rules, while maintaining that the rule still holds worth: |
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| | 26 | "... but he was definitely the black sheep of the family." |
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| | 28 | The same ''flexibility'' exists in all human languages and in almost all universes of discourse, short of some mathematics and philosophy - purely abstract universes that do not deal with the real world. |
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| | 30 | Even physics, chemistry and especially biology and linguistics have shorthands that are universally used in spite of being rife with exceptions and addenda: newtonian physics and thermodynamics were the building blocks of 19th century engineering, and yet they only apply well within particular limitations of scale - demonstrably they are not useless, but neither are they "right". |
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