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2.2.3.  MODELLING - COMPARISON - BACK FEED  or the  "Helices" of Philosophical Modelling of Knowledge.

     "Wish we it or not, our organism (the Brain in particular) is dealing with permanent Modelling since its activity is based on reflectory work of our Memory." (Author)

     Due to labour activities people always take the way of searching for the known or yet not discovered Knowledge and face the need to study or to discover new tops of historically tested milestones of the endless ocean of Science. These milestones are philosophically determined as the integrally shaped Models of intermediate results of general way of Cognition and form the chains of upgrading Sense of a number of fundamental Definitions of Natural Movements. The main axis of the scientific search for "True" is the following chain of interactions:

     All the WORDS forming this "helice" are of foreign (relatively to Russian and English languages) origin, but the Definitions of their Great Sense gained international popularity! Further there are the "classic" interpretations of these "titans" of scientific Research.  (See Fig. 5)

"FACT / done, made, performed - Latin/ - in general sense is identical to the definitions of true, genuine, event, result, knowledge of proved validity". /S.E.D./

"HYPOTHESIS /basis, foundation, suggestion - Greek/ - is a scientific supposition or allowance the true meaning of which remains indefinite".

"THEORY /observation, consideration, exploring - Latin/ - in wide sense is the scope of views, ideas, opinions aimed to interpret and explain a certain phenomenon; in a more narrow sense - the top, most developed form of organization of scientific knowledge providing the integrated idea of the existing regulations and essential links of a certain particular area of a real object considered by means of this theory".

"EXPERIMENT /probe, experience -Latin/ - a mean of cognition exploring the reality phenomena within controllable environment and conditions; Experiments are implemented on the basis of a certain Theory, determining the manner of the tasks placement and interpreting of its results". /F.E.D./

"PRACTICE" /activity - Greek/ - material, activity of people in pursue of certain targets; understanding and transformation of objective reality; comprehensive basis to develop human community and cognition". /S.E.D./

     The "Fact" is inherent to ALL of the mentioned categories, i. e. Hypothesis have their own causative facts, Theories collect, compile and generate facts, too; it goes without saying with Experiments and Practices are preoccupied with them. The practical facts of the occurred phenomenon form the starting point from which an explorer launches the series of reasonable comparisons of a new "material" with data already available within scientific apparatus. The Practical, Experimental, Theoretical and Hypothetical appliance of the obtained data is defined on the basis of these processes.
     With undisputable absence of the analogues of the discovered Fact the global question arises about the Mental contacts with quite unknown Natural phenomena. The contingency reaction on such an arising question is the process of identificating the extent of historical necessity to study such a phenomenon. The admittance of such a necessity triggers the chain of scientific research in reverse mode. The first is building the Hypothesis - an attempt to link together the split facts, to probe causal links, to create aggregated model of apparently non-contradictory views at the Objectivised. Further improvements in the Model are implemented by means of mathematical apparatus of abstract interpretation of the quantity and quality correlations in the investigated Object.   These means of Modelling allow to create Theoretical imaginations about the informative and energetic factors of Entropy within the considered Phenomenon.  . However, any such Theory hangs in the "atmosphere of doubts" until it is not confirmed by the results of physical and chemical Experiments built on the evaluation of the Theory exposed to checking up. The Facts obtained as a result of series of various Experiments are regarded as valid if they match with the similar apparent features of the explored "Original" and provide a possibility to create its Physical and Chemical Models.  Validity Criteria for the obtained Data is determined by the value of their Practical Application. The level of Psychobiological efficiency of the mass application of the obtained Knowledge gradually introduces this Phenomenon into the social life of our Conscience.
     Cognition of the consistence of the sensual transformations of the multi-grade term of "Link" will help to deepen understanding of Human researching activities process and of gradual improvement of the gained Knowledge. Various LEVELS of appreciation of THIS category more or less, the sense hidden in THEM are linked to already explored  "Cognition Core Structure". In this view it is now necessary to rearrange the consistence of its Criterial characteristics to the following pattern: (See Fig. 6)

     People operate historically built and scientifically established Measures  in their practical activities. The unit values of these Measures express minimum value of understood data covering the scope of their labour and efforts application. If an event gets into a sphere of human Practice, to which none of the operated Measures does not match people in their wishes to define it address the Experimentally obtained data or methods to find out the Properties of this event or phenomenon and prospects of its practical application, if any. If these attempts fail normal people stop further researching activities (they are "practical" people) and those "abnormal" (who are the ones predisposed to scientific activities) turn to Theoretical Knowledge so as, applying the known Natural principles, find out the relations of the event or phenomenon in question with Scientific and Technological problems. When the Link Relations in this event or phenomenon are not yet defined even by means of Hypothetical resources of Cognition, humans face the questions to establish the Conditions of appearance of such an enigmatic Fact of the event in general! Such a person gains a title of Exploring Scientist and his thinking takes a reversal orientation relatively to the described chain of scientific categories relevant to the Cognition activities.
     The way of Intelligent Knowledge creation runs from identifying the Links of sufficient and necessary Conditions of occurrence the event or phenomenon being under exploration. Then, on this basis the process of Hypothesis building runs explaining this event or phenomenon. After this the Relations are established within the Links of informative and energetical nature which leads to Theoretical foundation of Entropy of this event or phenomenon. Applying the theoretically clarified Link Relations the explorer develops physical and chemical Experiments. Comparing their results with actual pattern of this event or phenomenon existence gives grounds to judge about the Links between its natural Properties. In case of favourable outcome of the Experimental confirmation of the developed Theory series of psycho-biological experiments is created to study Practical aspects of applying certain Link Measures of the explored event or phenomenon. The Practical Usefulness of the Linking Proportions is defined by minimum drift of their "specific" idealization on which sufficiency of Knowledge completion of the explored Natural Phenomenon is based.
     The definition of the word "SENSE" is the primary definition of any random idea coming out from human Organism, i.e. Human Being, applying various means of communication always tries to express internally reflected arrangement of the information percepted by His or Her Memory. If the things expressed by people gain sufficient resemblance of the sensual properties, they understand each other and, once they did, generate their commonly appreciated CATEGORIES of arrangement of experienced Events occurring in their common life.  It comes from the above that the Sense of these COMMONLY DEVELOPED CATEGORIES OF EVALUATION  (further CUSTOMS) is the universal facility of international communication. That is why this process of various links establishment may be defined as a chain of philosophical interpretation of the term "Sense": Methods - Principles - Categories - Customs. (See Fig. 5)

     Evolutionary Practice of Human communication produced a great variety of multi-language Words with equivalent Understanding of their Sensual load. The next higher level of Aggregation is the lexicon of scientific wisdom which operates the terms of Categorizing sense. Using in Cognition the terms of Categorizing charge helps the Human Mind to fix its observation in the Sense borne within the LAW term. The level of sensual aggregation of the LAW is explained in Categorizing terms which possess their own aggregating value within the framework of Objectivised Cognition System. This aspect of the LAW always reflects the necessary essential and stable in their repeating Links of the Object being under Cognition. The perfection in identifying sensual charge is described by the efficiency of its application with Civilized Coexistence Practice. This process is implemented within meaning of the METHOD term, sense of which lies in reasonably arranged application of Customs, Categories and Laws of the processed Cognition sphere.
     There is no necessity to describe the work of the above scheme. However, it is worthy to note that the realized LINKS Improvement chain defines prevailed analytical aspect of the explorer's activities, and the similar chain of SENSE development - their prevailing synthesis orientation. To this we must add, that the COGNITION CORE defines the philosophical "Models" of general processes of searching information about the phenomenon of interest. They express intermediate results of analysis and synthesis activities of the explorers.
     Now we shall examine a further chain of philosophical categories ( Expression, Indication, Feature - Greek): Necessity, Form, Content, Essence of a PHENOMENON. Sensual charge when mentioning the word "Phenomenon" is, undisputably the highest of all the specified above, since its origins can be traced at least to the ancient Greek word translated as the "Appearance, Apparent Features" which may be equalized with the modern term of "Environment". We are coming up to discover that the term of PHENOMENON (in its aggregating level) lines up with the term of "MATTER". Using such a fundamental conclusion we can now built the consistence of ITS gradual transformations (See Fig. 7)

     The sensual Evolution of THIS Definition begins its way from the Occasional getting of any event or phenomenon into the scope of human Conscious activities which may lead to Necessity of this event or phenomenon. The Understanding of NECESSITY of this phenomenon leads to discovery of its FORM with further clarification of CONTENTS of this "formulated" Phenomenon. Then, developing the depths of Contents of the explored FORMS of the cognited Phenomenon, the highlighting of its ESSENCE comes which must satisfy the Scientific level of Social Knowledge. From the first sight the structure of this chain seems in all respects reasonable and at their places, but the first impressions are often disputable, since the "scope of reliability" is restricted by the sense of the "OCCASIONAL" word. Ancient Germans succeeded to define its sense by saying: "There is nothing occasional in the life, there are only undiscovered reasons". Let us take in as it is, trusting them, and, leaving it to the mathematical Theory of Chance for handling, return to the described consistence.
     In such a version THIS CHAIN excludes the privity in appliance of the achieved Knowledge about essence, content, form and necessity of the phenomena exposed to the abstract or concrete research, since the information undergoing a process of Cognition constantly increases and it is very hard to find one's way to the True without these consistencies. We shall skip the interpretation of the above scheme. The principle of its application remains the same.
     Now let us examine a little unusual Chain of philosophic means of production which gives a very transparent hint to "combat" Arts gained by "militarised" orientation of the ideas of the Intelligence dealing with the Cognition processes. However, any art is the expression of Human Wisdom, which means that military area of Knowledge has something to bring use and not the harm to Civilization. Let us start with the "classic" definitions of the proposed set of terms. (See Fig. 5)

"OPERATION /Action- Latin/ - 1)(mil.) a combination of strikes, attacks, battles, agreed and coordinated in their aim, time and place carried on by operative combination of one or more types of armed forces based on the unified idea and plan to solve certain operative and strategic tasks; - 2) (computing technologies) performance by computer a certain actions with the input values (including their transfer) under one of the programmed orders; - 3) completed action or a number of actions linked between each other aimed to solve a certain problem." /S.E.D./

"POSITION /situation - Latin/ -1) (mil.) a part (area, district) of territory (water area), occupied or planned to be occupied by the troops (forces) and for battle holding; as a rule is equipped in engineering processing; ?in land troops the positions may be outposts, main, extra, cutting off, fire, waiting, starting, launching, etc.; -2) point of view, attitude to something; actions or behaviour on the basis of such an attitude; - 3) situation, disposition of something ( e.g. figures on a chess board)." /S.E.D./

"TACTICS /Art of Lining up.-Greek/ - an integral component of martial art, including theory and practice of preparing and holding a battle operation the units, divisions, ships and subdivisions of various kinds of armed forces; occupies a subordinate position to operative art and strategy" /S.E.D./

"STRATEGY /in Ancient Greece the strategos was a commander possessing large military and political authority (modern interpretation  - a military commander, head of large combat operations)/ - the highest area of martial art encompassing the aspects of theory and practice of preparation of the State and its armed forces to war, its planning and holding, explores the regulatory factors of wars; develops the ways and forms of preparations and holding strategic operations, determines combat tasks assigned to fronts, fleets and armies, distributes forces between combat theatres and strategic directions...; Strategy is unified for the entire armed forces and its recommendations are compulsory for all the kinds of armed forces." /S.E.D./

     Well, if such a serious organization level was applicable for the scientific Cognition, who knows where we succeeded to fly our interplanetary star ships! But let dreams remain dreams, but the current situation is "Our forces don't get beyond the orbits, Our plans are the Universe!" and therefore we are to keep our line of attack (or defence) further.
     We are Intelligent people and the vast majority of Terrains wish and demand only peaceful Actions at the planet, thus the terms of "war" and "combat" are applicable only for passionate struggle with Illiteracy and Ignorance both at Present and in Future not only in the processes of individual Cognition but in the Education of peoples of the World as well.
     In view of the above purpose the following consistence of researches is proposed: from Cognition STRATEGY, comprising the noble strives of human activities and ideas in its Mind to TACTICAL definition of the explorer's "combat theatre", on which the basic POSITIONS are to be created and equipped for the scientists' efforts in Cognition striving to set to OPERATIVE applications of the achieved and achievable results of Search for genuine Knowledge.
     So, for already known scheme we have: Cognition STRATEGIES, Cognition TACTICS,  Cognition POSITIONS, Cognition OPERATIONS with each of them occupying an individual area of prevailing influence on the general progress of researching activities.   (See Fig. 8)

At this stage of Modelling the basic principle of the specified positions of increasing and decreasing the extents of cognitional Aggregation remains without alterations.

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