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> [mailto:ontolog-forum-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Pat Hayes
> Sent: 30 August 2007 19:09
> To: Barker, Sean (UK)
> Cc: [ontolog-forum]
> Subject: Re: [ontolog-forum] Current Semantic Web Layer pizza
> (was ckae)
>
> >John
> >
> > Thanks for your patience. My view, more precisely, is
> that anything
> >called semantics must be grounded in pragmatics to make sense.
>
> BUt that is clearly wrong, since there are semantic theories
> of wide application which do not refer to pragmatics. I think
> you state your case too strongly.
>
> >If semantics has a use, it is in creating systems of terms, and
> >structuring their differentia.
>
> ? No, it is is specifying the meanings of formal expressions. (01)
The problem I have that I can't see "the meaning of formal expressions"
stops being a circular definition until one agrees what effect they have
- or at least, when one does something in the world as a consequence of
these formal expressions. It is interesting (intellectually) to know
that 1 + 1 = 0, but it
is of practical consequence when I turn lights on and off. (02)
Sean Barker
Bristol, UK (03)
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