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Glossary of Terms
Knowledge: Knowledge is an object. A mechanism of knowledge is the mental procedures to build cognitive frames and the enactment of procedures to carry out placing the knowledge in tangible form. The
corporeal representation(s) of both the knowledge and the mental
procedures and physical activities is shown as the piece of paper on
which the knowledge is represented.
Knowledge is not a series of self-consistent theories that converges
towards an ideal view; it is not a gradual approach to the truth. It is
rather an ever increasing ocean of mutually incompatible (and perhaps
even incommensurable) alternatives, each single theory, each fairy tale,
each myth that is part of the collection forcing the others into greater
articulation, and all of them contributing, via this process of competition, to the development of our consciousness. Nothing is ever settled …
(Feyerabend 1993)
Law: A law is a recurring rule or a collection of recurring rules, proven
empirically.
Lifecycle: Lifecycle is associated with the product or service as that which
occurs from conception to disposal, from the earliest moment of
thought to the settlement of the last lawsuit. It is more appropriate
from a product’s or service’s perspective to think of lifecycle as various stages of interaction and integration. The lifecycle paradigm for
a product or service is from the perspective of the customer, developer, and user. Lifecycle is the result (or a symptom) of integration.
Lifecycle costs: Lifecycle costs consist of the costs associated with the processes (and it can be said, with the results of the processes) or an
object (and the consequences of the object) within a cycle or the
product’s lifecycle.
Lifecycle success: Lifecycle success means not overrunning cost budgets
ascribed to delivering the expected product or service.
Lifetime: The duration in which the product or service, object, or process
exhibits properties and traits that are indicative of the characteristic
nature of the product or service, object, or process.
Limitation: The limitations are given by the domain of the problem.
Limitations are conditions of boundaries, and once imposed they
are immutable.
Logic: Logic for integration is (1) defined as sufficient to support detailed
analysis and interpretation of within a framework of relevant variables; (2) based on a consistent set of assumptions; (3) stipulated as
the ontology of formalisms that translate into each other; (4) residing
within the traditions of epistemology; (5) agreeing on a narrative
that elicits particular interpretations of phenomenology; (6) being a
consistent set of metaphysical facts that relate “phenomena as a
whole to other genera of existence” (Lewes 1875); (7) supporting a set
of value structures that are at least partially, piece-wise predictable;
Glossary of Terms
Knowledge: Knowledge is an object. A mechanism of knowledge is the mental procedures to build cognitive frames and the enactment of procedures to carry out placing the knowledge in tangible form. The
corporeal representation(s) of both the knowledge and the mental
procedures and physical activities is shown as the piece of paper on
which the knowledge is represented.
Knowledge is not a series of self-consistent theories that converges
towards an ideal view; it is not a gradual approach to the truth. It is
rather an ever increasing ocean of mutually incompatible (and perhaps
even incommensurable) alternatives, each single theory, each fairy tale,
each myth that is part of the collection forcing the others into greater
articulation, and all of them contributing, via this process of competition, to the development of our consciousness. Nothing is ever settled …
(Feyerabend 1993)
Law: A law is a recurring rule or a collection of recurring rules, proven
empirically.
Lifecycle: Lifecycle is associated with the product or service as that which
occurs from conception to disposal, from the earliest moment of
thought to the settlement of the last lawsuit. It is more appropriate
from a product’s or service’s perspective to think of lifecycle as various stages of interaction and integration. The lifecycle paradigm for
a product or service is from the perspective of the customer, developer, and user. Lifecycle is the result (or a symptom) of integration.
Lifecycle costs: Lifecycle costs consist of the costs associated with the processes (and it can be said, with the results of the processes) or an
object (and the consequences of the object) within a cycle or the
product’s lifecycle.
Lifecycle success: Lifecycle success means not overrunning cost budgets
ascribed to delivering the expected product or service.
Lifetime: The duration in which the product or service, object, or process
exhibits properties and traits that are indicative of the characteristic
nature of the product or service, object, or process.
Limitation: The limitations are given by the domain of the problem.
Limitations are conditions of boundaries, and once imposed they
are immutable.
Logic: Logic for integration is (1) defined as sufficient to support detailed
analysis and interpretation of within a framework of relevant variables; (2) based on a consistent set of assumptions; (3) stipulated as
the ontology of formalisms that translate into each other; (4) residing
within the traditions of epistemology; (5) agreeing on a narrative
that elicits particular interpretations of phenomenology; (6) being a
consistent set of metaphysical facts that relate “phenomena as a
whole to other genera of existence” (Lewes 1875); (7) supporting a set
of value structures that are at least partially, piece-wise predictable;