Philosophy of information · levels of abstraction
There is a system in itself that resists, and there is no unique level at which it must be described: every model is fit for a purpose. The digital re-ontologises the world from mechanism to network.
Gives the licence to model without scientism: levels of abstraction are the theory of modelling; rational pluralism is the alternative to both absolute relativisation and absolute rationalisation.
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