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Re: [ontolog-forum] Disaster Management ontology BOF in Delft

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From: Waclaw Kusnierczyk <Waclaw.Marcin.Kusnierczyk@xxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Fri, 08 Jun 2007 22:20:22 +0200
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John,    (01)

John F. Sowa wrote:
> Azamat,
> 
> Those three statements are completely consistent:
> 
>   1. ...there must be a complete and consistent description of the
>      entire universe for all time.    (02)

This seems far from obvious.    (03)

First, what is meant by 'description'?  A written, spoken sentence, a 
thought, a collection of propositions?  If there is such a description, 
is the description a part of the universe, and as such, is it a 
description of the entire universe -- thus including the description 
itself?  If it is not, what does 'entire' mean?    (04)

Second, what is meant by 'be'?  In what sense such a description *must be*?    (05)

vQ    (06)

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