MODELING RELATION
| Collection | International Encyclopedia of Systems and Cybernetics |
|---|---|
| Year | 2004 |
| Vol. (num.) | 2(2) |
| ID | ◀ 2170 ▶ |
| Object type | Epistemology, ontology or semantics, Methodology or model |
The set of mappings in the model which reflects characteristics of the modelled entity .
This is however a matter of criteria , which themselves are used by a model builder in base of his/her frame of references (as it is when the model is made) and of his/her more or less adequate perceptions .
To appreciate the hidden postulates in models construction, the following viewpoints are specially useful:
- von FOERSTER's critique of the observer 's intervention in the “observed system”(2$^{nd $ order cybernetics)
- KORZYBSKI's scrutinizing of our ways of abstraction through his structural differential
- KUHN's work on changes of paradigms also considered in other studies about our common use of the Cartesian and the Newtonian paradigms (R. ROSEN, for example)
- MATURANA's studies about our ways of perceptual and mental relationships with the “world out there” and the quagmire of our supposed objectivity .
Finally, it becomes crystal clear that our models can at most be homomorphic (in one or another selected way) to the modelled “object ”.
See also
Constructivism, Isomorphism