Very telling then that a distinguishing characteristics of social
systems, communities, is shared purposes and processes (01)
(ie allows some separation of pragmatics and semantics, since one is
then a shared given, and the other a negotiable variable) (02)
Has implications for designing socio-technical systems such as ontologies (03)
Jenny Ure (04)
>
> PH: Exchanging terms defined using an assertional language at least
> holds out the hope of allowing information to be separated from
> the processes which use it, which seems to be a prerequisite for
> useful information exchange.
> JA:
> By "impractical semantics" I should have meant the notion that
> one can detach semantics from pragmatics so radically that it
> is possible to treat them as separate modules, in effect, to
> hold out the hope of allowing information to be separated
> from the processes which use itI think it makes sense to do this as
> much as > possible,but the hope of making an absolute separation is
> what
> I would consider a delusive hope.
> (05)
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