Granularity, Topicality, and Generalization of Information

[Jack Park]

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Granularity, Topicality, and Generalization of Information

Reflections about maps and models, orienting generalizations and their
possible pragmatic and ethical implications and challenges

Abstract: "The outstanding or unique quality of geographers or
topographers is their experience and professionalism in handling
scales; scales including proportions and consequences connected to the
issues between "commons" like: cultures, sectors, languages, and
fields.

Generalization has to do with agreements on subjects and intentions,
on scales, frames and legends, how information will not only be
reduced, but brought to a higher level of organization in a repeatable
and understandable way, keeping in mind the logical flow of data
between scales. The discussion of the Potentials and Challenges
connected to generalization form the main part of the paper. A
Cognitive Panorama making up a model, an embodied generalization is
presented.

One special concern of often requested "orienting generalizations" is
how to not only bridge entities in physical or natural environments,
but how this could be applied while using the "toolbox" of mapmakers,
model-builders, and librarians, keeping track of repositories holding
terminological and language information, including the exchange and
translation between scales, natural, cultural, and sign information
(according to C.S. Peirce: symbols, icons, and indexes).

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