Foundation
Foundations are absolutely vital in engineering something. A foundation is the underlying system of principles, definitions, and organizing structures that makes higher‑level reasoning, communication, and knowledge possible. A foundation is the base layer of meaning that everything else depends on. A foundation: establishes the primitives, defines the rules, sets the constraints, determines what is possible, ensures consistency, enables interoperability. A foundation is the ground truth of a domain. Meaning is intersubjective . Communication is impossible if there is no mutual cognitive agreement and understanding. Shared understanding is important. This blog post is an attempt to move closer to a shared understanding. * * * Overview * * * Symbols, when arranged into structures, become meaningful only through semantic mappings that generate concepts; a theory then specifies those concepts and their relations, and facts are the concrete assertions that instantiate tho...