Marsha said to Ron: ..I don't think the net-of-jewels model fits into the MOQ. This bother me.
dmb says: You know that bit about the mythos being analogies upon analogies? I use the net of jewels to imagine the structure of language. Each word and each concept has meaning only in relation to other words and concepts. Spider webs work to illustrate this idea too but jewels are so much nicer. [Krimel] Once more into the breach... The idea of a net or a web approaches a constructive analogy but misses the point if only slightly. The problem with the analogy is that it implies an equal connection between all of the nodes. With language especially this misses an important point which is that all of the connections are not equal. There is a very strong connection between "apples" and "red" or in another context between "apples" and "oranges" but a very weak connection between "apples" and "sea urchins". Language and thoughts comprises a complex network of association more like a tree or a river system or a highway system, or a nervous system or lungs. It is a universal geometrical structure that is self similar across scale and appears to us in two, three and four dimensions. But then I have mentioned this many many times and will once again suggest that it is critical to a useful understanding of the MoQ. Moq_Discuss mailing list Listinfo, Unsubscribing etc. http://lists.moqtalk.org/listinfo.cgi/moq_discuss-moqtalk.org Archives: http://lists.moqtalk.org/pipermail/moq_discuss-moqtalk.org/ http://moq.org.uk/pipermail/moq_discuss_archive/
