'We Like Lists Because We Don't Want to Die'

Re:'We Like Lists Because We Don't Want to Die' by nazgulnarsil on Monday November 16, 2009 @12:39PM (#944830)

before you have a solid ontological understanding of a concept, lacking powerful descriptive axioms we're forced to rely on a list of characteristics e.g. intrinsic properties, how it interacts with other objects, etc. if we restrict ourselves to things we already have a vigorous understanding of how will we consider new hypothesis?

I'm not sure if this is coming through right.

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Re:'We Like Lists Because We Don't Want to Die' by phr on Monday November 16, 2009 @03:46PM (#945258)

Reminds me of interfaces in Google Go. No rigid class hierarchy to cram our objects into. Just implement a list of methods and you're good.

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