Confucius associates the good and beautiful. Li (translated variously as “ritual propriety,” “ritual,” “etiquette,” or “propriety”) embodies entire spectrum of interaction with humans, nature, even material objects. I argue that attempts to introduce an ethical ontology, not “what,” but “the way.” The “way” reality becomes known deliberate participation Dao. In other words, through interaction....

We develop a general theory for the goodness-of-fit test to non-linear models. In particular, we assume that observations are noisy samples of submanifold defined by sufficiently smooth map. The observation noise is additive Gaussian. Our main result shows “residual” model fit, solving least-square problem, follows (possibly noncentral) χ <sup xmlns:mml="http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML" xmln...