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Re: [ontolog-forum] notes and rumours

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From: Waclaw Kusnierczyk <Waclaw.Marcin.Kusnierczyk@xxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Mon, 02 Jul 2007 17:57:51 +0200
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The difference in vocabulary between men and women may, after all, 
reflect something more than mere linguistic habit.  There may be a 
genuine difference in *concepts*.  (Pardon me for using the c-word;  I 
repeat after Pat.)    (01)

An interesting trace:
http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/06256/721190-114.stm    (02)

(I can't find serious scientific publications on this;  if you find one, 
please let me know.)    (03)

vQ    (04)

Barker, Sean (UK) wrote:
> The point being that people habitually use a particular vocabulary, and this 
>is the vocabulary they are likely to use when describing things, not that they 
>couldn't recognise another vocabulary if they could be bothered to read the 
>manual. It seems a necessary precondition that to accurately understand a 
>vocabulary, you need to understand that the vocabulary has been carefully 
>constructed. The question is not "What could people understand", but what will 
>they actually understand. The death rate on US railways went down very 
>considerably when the too-long-to-read warning signs were replaced with ones 
>simply saying "Stop - look - listen".
> 
> Sean Barker
> Bristol, UK
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>  
> 
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: Pat Hayes [mailto:phayes@xxxxxxx] 
>> Sent: 02 July 2007 15:49
>> To: Barker, Sean (UK)
>> Cc: [ontolog-forum] 
>> Subject: Re: [ontolog-forum] notes and rumours
>>
>>> 1) A footnote to John Sowa's 'Fads and Fallacies about Logic', the 
>>> Greek term Logos, from which the work logic derives, referred to 
>>> something written and was contrasted to Mythos, something 
>> spoken, from 
>>> which. I can't track down the reference, but around the 5th 
>> century the 
>>> traditional Mythos lost status as compared to Logos, and hence the 
>>> negative connotations to the truth value of myths.
>>>
>>> 2) Re previous discussion on creating a "the upper 
>> ontology", see the 
>>> interview "Shades of Meaning" in this week's New Scientist (30 June 
>>> 2007). Among several points relevant to the discussion of 
>> ontologies, 
>>> "In Benin in West Africa, for example, men and women have different 
>>> colour vocabularies".
>> The linguist Robin Lakoff noted some time ago that American 
>> men and women have different color vocabularies. Women for 
>> example reliably distinguish scarlet from crimson, both of 
>> which are described as 'red' by 90% or more of males, and 
>> women use color terms such as 'puce', 'teal' 
>> and 'ecru' whose meanings are completely opaque to men who do 
>> not work in the clothing industry.
>>
>>>  It seems unlikely that we could agree a single universal "colour 
>>> ontology", except possibly as an academic exercise of little 
>> relevance 
>>> to real engineers...
>> Naaah, be careful. The lack of a common NL vocabulary does 
>> not mean that there is a similar spread of *concepts*. In 
>> fact there is considerable evidence that all human beings 
>> share a basic set of color perceptions organized around 
>> prototypical colors. Different linguistic cultures have built 
>> different vocabularies on top of this biological skeleton, 
>> but its value is a common organizing framework should not be 
>> obscured by mere linguistics.
>>
>> Pat Hayes
>>
>>>
>>> Sean Barker
>>> Bristol, UK
>>>
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>>>
>>>>  -----Original Message-----
>>>>  From: ontolog-forum-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
>>>>  [mailto:ontolog-forum-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf 
>> Of  John 
>>>> F. Sowa
>>>>  Sent: 29 June 2007 15:58
>>>>  To: [ontolog-forum]
>>>>  Subject: Re: [ontolog-forum] quick question re OKBc
>>>>
>>>>
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>>>>  Debbie,
>>>>
>>>>   > ... can you please point to a few valuables in the road  kill 
>>>> that  > should be spotlighted or saved ...
>>>>
>>>>  The term was jocular, but the point behind it is that the 
>>  enormous 
>>>> attention and funding that has been poured into the  
>> Semantic Web has 
>>>> changed the direction of a great deal of R &  D.  The 
>> issues are much 
>>>> more complex than just a list of "road kill".
>>>>
>>>>  I presented a talk in August 2006, which addressed many of  the 
>>>> historical trends and the areas that need more attention.
>>>>  Following are the slides:
>>>>
>>>>      http://www.jfsowa.com/talks/extend.pdf
>>>>      Extending Semantic Interoperability
>>>>      To Legacy Systems and an Unpredictable Future
>>>>
>>>>  Following is an article that addresses some related topics:
>>>>
>>>>      http://www.jfsowa.com/pubs/fflogic.pdf
>>>>      Fads and Fallacies about Logic
>>>>
>>>>  This talk and this article do not discuss the semantic 
>> web in  any 
>>>> detail, but they address some historical trends, some  future 
>>>> possibilities, and some questions about how to get  from 
>> where we are 
>>>> to where we would like to be.
>>>>
>>>>  One of my recommendations is summarized in the following  
>> diagram, 
>>>> which illustrates various languages and diagrams for  the human 
>>>> interfaces, various languages for the machine  interfaces, 
>> and Common 
>>>> Logic as the common intermediate language.
>>>>
>>>>      http://www.jfsowa.com/figs/comlog.gif
>>>>
>>>>  In the middle, Common Logic could be replaced by IKL, 
>> which  is an 
>>>> extension to the draft CL standard that could become
>>>  > the basis for a future update to the standard.
>>>>  John
>>>>
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