Re: Why is OO Popular?

From: Universe (universe_at_tAkEcovadOut.net)
Date: 05/11/04 

Date: Tue, 11 May 2004 13:48:44 -0400

"Isaac Gouy" <igouy@yahoo.com> wrote in message
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> Rich MacDonald <rich@@clevercaboose.com> wrote in message
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> > > -snip-
> > >> I think people understand the world based on classifications of
> > >> things.
> > > Distinctions are fundamental.
> > > Systems of classification are pervasive.
> > >
> > > "SORTING THINGS OUT: CLASSIFICATION AND ITS CONSEQUENCES"
> > > http://weber.ucsd.edu/~gbowker/classification/
> >
> > My problem with classification is that there are so many different
ways to
> > do it. In the software world, I've never seen a classification I
couldn't
> > screw with some special case. OO certainly facilitates
classification, but
> > perhaps its an evil temptress :-? At least it was for me in my
early OO
> > yrs.
>
> "the development of object-oriented languages... this turn of events
> has led computer science squarely into the business of doing
research
> in ontology." p44 On the Origin of Objects, Brian Cantwell Smith
>
> I seem to remember that relational modelling led William Kent (Data
> and Reality. North-Holland, 1978) into the same business.

Nice references, can't wait to read them! Fun, fun, fun!!

> "The world simply doesn't come all chopped up into nice neat
> categories, to be selected among by peripatetic critters - as if
> objects were potted plants in God's nursery, with the categories
> conveniently inscribed on white plastic labels."
> p7 smith-godapprox4.pdf, Brian Cantwell Smith

While it often requires difficult experience that is summarized
correctly - scientifically - in the context of a domain, or in the
context of related domains to comprehend the similarities
differences amongst things, it is however very possible to do create
workable categories.

We are unquestionably able to define categories via logical evaluation
and
judgment in the application of the scientific method. Useful
categories
allow us to organize, manage, and leverage objects and object
collaboration -
the affairs, events, processes - of a domain for our benefit and often
for
the benefit of other species and natural systems.

Bottom line reality exists objectively regardless of how whether or
not
we think of it--when a tree falls in the forest it *does* make a
noise, heard
or unheard. No doubt context mediates how we relate to and approach
the objective, but nevertheless the reality does exist and again it is
via
experience analyzed and synthesized scientifically that we can truly
understand objective as it confronts in the context of a domain.

This domain context experience judged scientifically is both a source
and
beneficiary of our ability to create categories.

So truth - the facts about objective reality - is subjective to the
extent a domain
context mediates our connection to objective reality, but primarily
and at the
same time truth is objective in the sense that there is mass-energy
that exists
regardless and in spite of how we think about it, that is being
mediated by the
subjective domain context.

I like this piece. A good 'un, imo. A nice substantive "shorty".
!:- }

Suggest rereading, and above suggest *Enjoy*!!

Elliott 

--
is

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