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Roger L. Costello <costello@m... > writes: <snip>discussion on simplification and complexity</snip> > Perhaps for some things progress must come about by adding more complexity. I don't know. What do you think? I think there is a third aspect to this that confounds the issue: abstraction. One could spend large amounts of time arguing whether abstraction simplifies or complexifies things, I suspect one must conclude it does both simultaneously? My prime example is our system; as we continue to identify common underlying abstractions our code and schema become simpler and simpler. However, as things become more and more abstract they become harder and harder to understand, the basic context gets lost and one needs a new level of metadata -- from what was originally embedded in the code and schema -- to understand what is going on. One ends up looking for ways to tie your schema and code abstractions back to formal models: which perhaps brings us nicely full circle back to the KR/OWL/Triplets permathread...
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