Re: Modeling relations and semantics

[Jerry Zhu <***>]

John, I have some issues with the diagram also.

As Judith already mentioned earlier that causal laws
alone only represent a narrow scope of reality or real
world. Most of real world are statistical. As Pattee,
Polanyi and others pointed dural control of living
systems: matter aspects and symbol aspects. 
Considering natural systems as under control of causal
laws alone has ignored another half in most part of
real worlds we are dealing with.  

A phiolosphicall issue in modeling, according to
Wittgenstein, is that reality does not express itself
by means of models brought to it, rather reality
expresses itself through models by means of what is in
common between the models and reality.  That what has
common between models and reality can not be said in
models (that is science and theory).  What can not be
said can be shown.  Everything said in philosophy
becomes part of science or theory.  Philosophy shows
us what is in common between reality and models.
Everyhing said in philosophy is a bad grammer.

Jerry


                
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