[FRIAM] description - explanation - metaphor - model - and reply

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It would be easier if you would use a word like "artifact" or somesuch when you talk about the model absent it's contextual analogies. E.g. some yahoo back 10k years ago draws a picture and some teenage spelunker comes upon it in 2020. That picture is better described as "artifact" than "picture".

To reword: the artifact you call "Eric" doesn't intend anything. But when you use that artifact to get him to do something, then the artifact+usage _intends_ that something. Some may argue that the word "model" shouldn't be used unless the usage/context is present. But that's a load of sophistry, I think. People will use whatever word they want to use whenever they want to use it. So we just have to be flexible and listen generously.

On 1/15/20 12:44 PM, thompnickson2 at gmail.com wrote:
> To me, you are a model, right?  Whatever you are, it is my model of you with which I am dealing.  So, when you intend something  by a model, it is a case of a model intending a model, right?  So, models intend, right?  So why not just say so, in the first instance.


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