Knowledge and Information LO30926

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Replying to LO30878 --

Don Dwiggins <d.l.dwiggins@computer.org> had asked:

> What's a fact? In particular, is it something other than a statement?

I stumbled into this interesting page by
Mitchel Resnick and Brian Silverman of The MIT Media Lab
http://llk.media.mit.edu/projects/emergence/index.html
in which there are some interesting ways to look at "objects".

It seems, as we grow more confident of the world we know, someone
comes along with a silly-looking demonstration that actually turns our
world into a castle in the air.

However, construction of objects, factual statements, and by the way,
both castles and castles in the air, is what keeps us busy, and human!

DP

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