I for one am very interested in this conversation. Much of what I do
requires a well rounded understanding of the structure of knowledge. In the
spirit of the discussion, is it possible for you to make the referenced
selections available to the list? Not all of us have easy access to them.
John Warfield Writes:
>But I do want to mention three publications which, if absorbed, would
>raise the level of sophistication of discussions about knowledge
>structures substantially. While sophistication is not an end in itself,
>the question of the structure of knowledge is very fundamental to all
>forms of use of knowledge.
>
>Publication 1. John N. Warfield, "Some Principles of Knowledge
>Organization", (1979), IEEE Transactions on Systems, Man, and Cybernetics
>9(6), 317-325.
>
>Reference 2. John N. Warfield, "Complementary Relations and Map Reading",
>(1980), IEEE Transactions on Systems, Man, and Cybernetics 10(6), 285-291.
>
>Reference 3. John N. Warfield (1994), A SCIENCE OF GENERIC DESIGN, Ames,
>IA, The Iowa State University Press, Appendix 1 titled "Relations,
>Lattices, Structural Types, Structural Metrics".
>
>Can I interest anyone in pursuing this line of discussion?
-- Brian (Bo) Newman bonewman@cbvcp.comHost of the Knowledge Management Forum <http://www.iea.com/~bonewman/>