Pattern of Knowledge W. Kandinsky, Tempered Elan, 1944

The Invention of Knowledge

Elements
Symbols
Basic building blocks
Universals
Axioms about symbols
Objects
Things with internal state, its own properties
Environments
Interactions of objects, relationships among them
Artifact
It is a human construction, every human construction, conccptual as well as physical. An artifact may be unique by being different from other artifacts, by being the same among other artifacts, and by matching two or more artifacts together.
Entities
Singular
Plural
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