COMPUTER-BASED IDENTIFICATION OF TYPES IN THE EMPIRICAL SCIENCES BY TANGLE THEORY

The present invention concerns a method of mechanically identifying and distinguishing clusters of qualities amongst potential qualities of given objects. The invention further concerns a computer-readable storage device having stored thereon instructions for carrying out such method. Moreover, the invention concerns a system for mechanical exploitation of a data set containing relations of objects each with at least one respective quality, each object being an element of a given set of objects, the qualities each being included in a given list of potential qualities.