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Does Model-Dependent Realism mean the Map is the Territory after all?
Stephen Hawking's Pipe.
In his book The Grand Design, Stephen Hawking says:
There is no picture- or
theory-independent concept of reality.
Instead we will adopt a view that we
will call ...
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What is the GeoCloud that everyone is talking about
Directions Magazine, Pitney Bowes (MapInfo), and many blogs are talking about 'CLOUD's in relation to GIS. I have read about Cloud-Computing but still don't understand the concept.
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Is GIS a tool or a science? [closed]
Is GIS a tool or a science? There's a lengthy and dense paper on the matter here. Could someone offer a more digestible summary?
