The Cybernetic Picture 1. Such a world exists independently of us. These objects can be conceptualized as an hierarchy of abstractions. Science studies objects and identifies their properties. Knowledge of the world is symbolic where symbols name the objects in the world.
Language consists of such naming.
Sentences say things about the world, and can be either true or false, but their ultimate grounding is in their correspondence with the objects they represent. Our cognition or thinking is in terms of such a language that consists of names and abstractions. We use science to study objects that make up nature in order that we can control nature to our purpose. This perspective limits meaning to empirical facts only whose validity can be scientifically determined. What the Cybernetic Picture Hides Readers may recognize the influence of the cybernetic picture of the world in how technology and technology management is viewed in the Universities.