relations, bonds and links LO29797

From: leo minnigh (minnigh@dds.nl)
Date: 01/09/03


Replying to LO29733 --

Dear Dwig,

Thank you for opening a new window for me. I never heard of 'mereology'
and I did a simple Google search. What a whealth of hits!

> There's also been quite a bit of work around relations in the artifical
> intelligence community, and there's an area of philosophical ontology
> called "mereology" that studies the relationships between parts and
> wholes. (Hmm, I should read up on that again to see how it looks from the
> vantage point of the 7Es.)

It was too much to get all my fingers behind it. There was one URL which
pleased me a lot:

http://www.hum.au.dk/semiotics/docs/epub/arc/paab/dia/diagrams.htm

But there were many more.

It is funny that you mentioned the public transport:

> To add to the examples you cite, consider a bus (the transportation
> vehicle, not the electrical component), and its relations to the
> passengers, the driver, its engine, its tires, and its operating license.
> Of all these, the passengers have the loosest and most transitory
> relationships with the bus. It's also interesting (and possibly useful) to
> consider the different kinds of relationships the bus has with the various
> entities listed, as a physical system, as a vehicle, as a part of the
> municipal transportation system, etc.

Funy, because it was more or less the line of thought I had originally.
You know, I am busy with writing some sort of book. I cannot yet call it a
book, because it are a lot of small chapters and paragraphs. And possibly
you could remember that transport, movements (Panta Rhei!), processes and
change form all an important group of my thinking.Obviously, I considered
all the relationships which may be involved in this matter as well. And
because At started (not for the first time) on wholeness, I thought to
appraoch that subject from another perspective, from the relationships.

What shall we call our dialogues - loops or relations? Anyway, we are
related to each other. No father-son relationship, bust 'just' friends :-)

Leo Minnigh

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