Re: A whiff of reality...

[Jan Kreft]

Glen,

you've tempted me to a comment I might regret since I don't want to start 
a discussion on this [no grin].

The different ontological status is an essential difference, and an
objective one.

Regards, Jan.

On Tue, 2 May 2000, glen e. p. ropella wrote:

> It's immanently clear that many people don't understand two
> things about validation and verification: 1) that they are
> inextricably tied up in the observables (Smith, Popper, Maturana, etc.)
> and 2) that they differ only in the subjective ontological status
> of their referents (i.e. system A is "reality" whereas system B is
> "a computer program... the only difference between "reality" and a
> "computer program" lies in the scientists mind.)




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