Comments on: This Sentence is False http://emergentfool.com/2007/01/16/this-sentence-is-false/ ...explorations in complex adaptive systems... Thu, 29 Jul 2010 19:50:26 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 hourly 1 By: Book Report: Complex Adaptive Systems « Complex Adaptive Systems http://emergentfool.com/2007/01/16/this-sentence-is-false/#comment-1232 Book Report: Complex Adaptive Systems « Complex Adaptive Systems Mon, 15 Dec 2008 22:33:32 +0000 http://rafefurst.wordpress.com/2007/01/16/this-sentence-is-false/#comment-1232 [...] This Sentence is False [...] [...] This Sentence is False [...]

]]> By: Complex Systems Concept Summary « Complex Adaptive Systems http://emergentfool.com/2007/01/16/this-sentence-is-false/#comment-1231 Complex Systems Concept Summary « Complex Adaptive Systems Wed, 03 Dec 2008 17:41:05 +0000 http://rafefurst.wordpress.com/2007/01/16/this-sentence-is-false/#comment-1231 [...] should not get hung up on any of these terms, they are models (approximations of reality).  Concepts like “cooperation” and “level” are [...] [...] should not get hung up on any of these terms, they are models (approximations of reality).  Concepts like “cooperation” and “level” are [...]

]]> By: rafefurst http://emergentfool.com/2007/01/16/this-sentence-is-false/#comment-1230 rafefurst Wed, 24 Jan 2007 18:55:52 +0000 http://rafefurst.wordpress.com/2007/01/16/this-sentence-is-false/#comment-1230 This article titled "What's in a Name" http://www.sciencenews.org/articles/20061223/bob22.asp (scroll down to see it) strikes me as a comical case in point about reifying concepts. Zoologists are notorious for getting hung up on definitions and classification, much to the detriment (IMHO) of any real scientific illumination This article titled “What’s in a Name”

http://www.sciencenews.org/articles/20061223/bob22.asp
(scroll down to see it)

strikes me as a comical case in point about reifying concepts. Zoologists are notorious for getting hung up on definitions and classification, much to the detriment (IMHO) of any real scientific illumination

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