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From: sjs16@bton.ac (Simon John Shurville)
Subject: Re: Problem with mass-nouns in OOA/OOD/OOP
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In article <4akgle$6fq@sunrise.pscwa.psca.com>
Ashley Engelund <aengelun> writes:

> (I freely admit I'm jumping in over my head with this one -- any Cognitive
> Scientist out there care to jump in to the fray?)

Me too but his is putting the cart before the horse; Cognitive
Scientists specialise in stealing their data structures from computer
science ;-)

More seriously, Richard Mitchell has a paper in a recent JOOP which I
*think* advocates looking to relationships *like* is_a or as_a that are
familiar to members of the Cognitive Science and AI world. I must get
around to reading it in detail.

I like what you have to say about OO being one step along our learning
curve rather than its termination point. I wonder what the next step
could be? Classes and Objects seem to suffer from analogous limitations
to those that logic suffers from. I wonder if there is any formal
language that is up to the kind of tasks I have in mind. We might want
to say more that we can but at some point we have to admit that ''where
of we can not speak...''

Simon
