Plato's Cave Revisited
Robert Vallée
(Université Paris‐Nord, France Director‐General of the World Organisation of Systems and Cybernetics)
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Abstract
Plato's cave, as described in The Republic, is considered as a source of inspiration for a mathematical presentation of the process of perception and decision. The epistemological operator allows for a description of some aspects of a system's epistemological subjectivity. The involvement of inverse transfers of the system's structures is discussed. Consideration of the epistemo‐praxiological cave and the physicist's cave gives further interpretations to Plato's allegory.
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Citation
Vallée, R. (1990), "Plato's Cave Revisited", Kybernetes, Vol. 19 No. 3, pp. 37-42. https://doi.org/10.1108/eb005847
Publisher
:MCB UP Ltd
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