Barry said: (01)
>When I say
>'the cat is on the mat' I, for one, am not intending to create a
>model of reality. Rather, I am attempting to say something about
>reality itself (this very cat). (02)
It depends on the intention of the speaker. (03)
When I say this as part of an ontology analyis it means to convey part of a
formal model and is
different than when I am, for example, answering the question, "Where's the
cat?",
which I can do with the informal model I use to act knowledgably in the world. (04)
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Subject: Re: [ontolog-forum] Confusion about 'model' (014)
Waclaw says (015)
You can use any language, of any expressivity, and still do silly
>things. Constrained expressivity does not mean that what you say about
>the world is necessarily confused -- it is just a model which is much
>more simple than the modeled reality. (016)
What, I wonder, does he mean by 'it'? Does he mean the language (is
OWL or any other language intended to be a model of reality)? Or some
statement or collection of statements in some language? When I say
'the cat is on the mat' I, for one, am not intending to create a
model of reality. Rather, I am attempting to say something about
reality itself (this very cat).
BS (017)
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