Ross Judson wrote: > We should worry less about the representation of knowledge, and more about a > stable and robust set of rules for resolving conflict and compositing > multiple knowledge and meta-knowledge sources. > > I wonder what patterns of information would survive and prosper in this > memetic greenhouse. Probably information that gets encoded in such a way that many people and machines will be able to use it. Bill de hOra wrote: > Untruths and mistruths. Yeah sure, like there are such things. Isn't the idea that there are truths and untruths a throwback from the epistomic debates of the prior millilenum? I thought we had stetted that these things just don't exist; and that the only things we can rely upon are effective procedures. .... Truth is relative to the observer ... SethReceived on Monday, 12 February 2001 18:15:47 UTC
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