An ontology with requisite variety is the single most important tool information modelers need to address real problems and create real opportunities.

in: What is an instance in information modeling?

 

What the ennead’s dimensions allow is that man can recognize it as middle. For that's his (disad)vantage point in an — experience of — encompassing structure. When I speak for myself, I feel inevitably both caught in my middle/muddle and freed by dynamics (as I can move from one middle to the next, and so on).

in: Notes on Metapattern and enneadic semiosis, part 2

 

Metapattern has left behind this principle of treating each object as an absolute unit, and that is not a matter of software engineering. The paradigm shift is grounded in the epistemological attitude of the modeler, in how she/he knows the world.

in: Metapattern as context orientation: meeting Odell's challenge of object orientation

 

There is only one way to design for requisite variety. The professional, responsible designer/modeler must be ontologically aware. S/he needs to have a fully developed theory of human cognition and sign exchange. It is how designers are relevant.

in: Open conceptual modeling with Metapattern

 

To make a long story short, through the ennead and Metapattern I find that I have long since developed theory & practice to apply contextualism to the field of information systems.

in: note 53.10

 

When you feel uneasy about a theory, it may well be that you are being forced to mistake how for what. I don’t mind a how-theory, on the contrary, but without a what-theory that it should explain there is actually nothing to understand.

in: note 53.13

 

Yes, of course, as long as axioms are not properly fitted for dialogicality and subsequent interdependence, it remains impossible to derive pertinent concepts. I myself felt, say, forced to step back as far as redesigning axioms because of ongoing failure in a societal sense of using digital information technologies (IT). So-called IT-projects are without exception still implicitly representative of a naïve realism, or logical atomism. [… S]uch projects are […] implicitly anti-social. Only a paradigm change will help.

in: note 53.43

 

I only became a self-taught philosopher in order to deal with problems, that is, most practically, that I found were irresolvable — please note, still the engineer — from traditional assumptions. And not being caught up and held back by any philosophical school I had attended, to me it was in fact obvious to recognize reflexibility — for which, indeed, I was prepared having been to mathematical ‘school’ — making assumptions for social psychology an integral part of an axiomatic scheme with — again, mathematically speaking — necessary and sufficient developmental and expressive power. What I take from Peirce’s axiom of irreducibility of his triad’s elements is that is actually doesn’t matter from where you start. You are bound to become engaged with all other elements, too.

in: note 53.43

 

Drawing points and connecting lines is not the problem. It is coming up with relevant ideas what they conceptually stand for, that we should be concerned with. There is no substitute for first of all properly understanding what information is about, really.

in: note 71.40