[FRIAM] FRIAM and causality

[Glen E. P. Ropella]

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Phil Henshaw on 12/06/2007 10:53 AM:
> The hard part seems to be to take the first dark step to accepting there
> might be a shape of another form that the measures are missing (like the
> whole tree or person).  It means looking for how to best extend and
> complete your image based on the limited cast of the measures at hand.
> Interpolation gone wild?? Free form projection perhaps??  Sort of...
> You just gotta do something to make sense of the larger continuities
> that develop in natural complex systems.  What I think we can see
> clearly is that our measures and models are highly incomplete.

I think we agree, which normally means there's nothing to talk about!
[grin]  But, I thought I'd throw out my term for what you're describing:
 "triangulation".

It's not really triangulation, of course.  But it's certainly more like
triangulation than, say, population sampling.  Perhaps we could call it
"tuple-angulation"???  [grin]

Here's a paper in which "we" (i.e. my outrageous rhetoric is reigned in
and made coherent by the authors of the paper ;-) try to describe it:

   http://www.biomedcentral.com/1752-0509/1/14/abstract

See Figure 1.  This particular example is just one sub-type of the
general method we're talking about, here, though.

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glen e. p. ropella, 971-219-3846, http://tempusdictum.com
If this were a dictatorship, it would be a heck of a lot easier, just so
long as I'm the dictator. -- George W. Bush

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