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 | | That levels are a "fact of nature" and not "in the eye of the beholder", as Dennett believed, was important to Newell; he made this ontological claim (kp:ont) at least three times in the original paper and reiterated it ten years later. |
 | | The symbol level, concerned with symbols, corresponds reasonably closely with Dooyeweerd's analytic aspect, whose concern is to identify and conceptualize what is important in a situation; Dooyeweerd sometimes called this the logical aspect. |
 | | At the bit level, the computer system is a psycho-sensitive object-functor, at the symbol level, an analytic object-functor, at the knowledge level (aboutness) a lingual object-functor, at the knowledge level (principle of rationality) a formative object-functor. |
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