[MD] cloud of probability

[MarshaV]

On Jun 11, 2011, at 2:14 PM, david buchanan wrote:

> 
> Marsha said:
> While definitions are important, to think a pattern is limited to any particular definition is foolish.
> 
> dmb asks again:
> If concepts and definitions are not intellectual static patterns, then what are they?

Marsha:
For me concepts and definitions are a part of static patterns of value.  


> If static patterns are something above and beyond concepts and definitions, where are they?

Marsha:
Static patterns of value are processes: impermanent, interdependent,
ever-changing. (Not independent objects, subjects or things-in-themselves.)  
Overlapping, interconnected, ever-changing processes that pragmatically
tend to persist and change within a stable, predictable pattern.   

Please note the "ever-changing processes that pragmatically
tend to persist and change within a stable, predictable pattern" part.


> dmb:
> On what basis do you conclude that these terms refer to two different things? 


Marsha:
Again, for me concepts and definitions are a part of static patterns of value.  There is 
not a one-to-one relationship between concepts/definitions and a pattern.  There 
could be visualizations associated with a pattern for one example.   





 
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