Heterotopia of the film Solaris directed by Andrei Tarkovski

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Jonathon Rosenbaum notes that Tarkovsky’s Solaris, (Andrei Tarkovsky 1972) unlike Lem’s novel, (Lem 2012) is rather anti-science fiction than science fiction. (Rosenbaum 1990, 60) Rosenbaum suggests that while the film is denying our archetypal space travel, the main concern is … Read More

Blockchain Ontologies: OCL and REA

Unified Modeling Language (UML) of Object Management Group, along with Object Constraint Language (OCL), (Purvis and Cranefield 1999) are considered by Joost de Kruijff and Hans Weigand as the best fit for blockchain ontology. (de Kruijff and Weigand 2017) OCL is a declarative language that describes the rules applicable to UML models and is part of the UML standard. Initially, OCL was just an extension of the formal specification language for UML. (Object Management Group 2000) Now, OCL can be used with any meta-model. (Object Management Group 2006) OCL is a precise text language that provides constraint expressions and query objects on any specific model or meta-model that cannot be expressed otherwise by schematic notation. OCL is a major component within the new standard recommendation for model transformation.

Lakatos on Dogmatic Falsificationism

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Sfetcu, Nicolae (2019). “Lakatos on Dogmatic Falsificationism”, in Telework, URL = https://www.telework.ro/en/lakatos-on-dogmatic-falsificationism/   Abstract Dogmatic (naturalist) falsificationism accepts the falsifiability of all scientific theories without qualification but preserves an infallible empirical basis. He is strictly empiric without being inductivist: he … Read More

Analogy of intelligence with other disciplines

Sfetcu, Nicolae (2019). “Analogy of intelligence with other disciplines”, in Telework, URL = https://www.telework.ro/en/analogy-of-intelligence-with-other-disciplines/   Abstract Intelligence analysis has many important epistemological resemblances with science (problem solving, discovery, skillful use of tools, knowledge verification) and is more interested in a … Read More

Intelligence Methodologies

Methodology, in intelligence, consists of the methods used to make decisions about threats, especially in the intelligence analysis discipline. The enormous amount of information collected by intelligence agencies often puts them in the inability to analyze them all. According to … Read More

Polanyi’s tacit knowledge applied in intelligence

Owen Ormerod has developed a theory that Michael Polanyi’s opinion on science can contribute to understanding the process and the “product” of intelligence analysis. (Ormerod 2018) Michael Polanyi’s arguments about the activities of scientists are transferable in the field of … Read More

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