>John
>thanks
>I understand and agree, that somehow the problem may arise from different
>usages and conventions however
>
>in brief
>
>in a business process sense (as supported by SOA type applications)
>a 'verb' is a command of sorts, ie, carries precises functional meaning
>and should be identified a such (01)
That is hardly *linguistics*, though, right?
English verbs are not always used to convey
commands. Im not sure what 'SOA' means, but the
business rules community have a standard based on
modal logic, where 'verbs' have nothing to do
with commands at all. (02)
Pat (03)
>
>pdm
>
>On Jan 2, 2008 1:40 PM, John F. Sowa <sowa@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>> Chris and Paola,
>>
>> As I said in an earlier note, terminological clashes are
>> inevitable when words from different traditions are mixed.
>>
>> The Latin word 'praedicatum' was a translation of Aristotle's
>> word 'kategoria' (which had been used for an accusation in
>> a court of law). Both words had the sense of some word or
>> phrase that is said of something.
>>
>> CM> the predicate is the word "creator"
>>
>> PDM> shrieeekkk, what?, surprise, despair, bewilderment, incredulity
>>
>> The word 'predicate' in symbolic logic is derived from the sense
>> of some description or accusation said of something. But the same
>> word has been used in linguistics in the more specialized sense
>> of the verb phrase saying something about the subject.
>>
>> But there is indeed a commonality that was recognized by
>> Aristotle and the Scholastics. Leibniz made the point:
>>
>> Praedicatum inesse subjecto verae propositionis.
>>
>> Or in English,
>>
>> The predicate is present in the subject of a true proposition.
>>
>> For example, in the true sentence
>>
>> "Yojo is a black cat"
>>
>> all the properties implied by 'black cat' are present in Yojo.
>>
>> Words change their meanings over time, and such clashes happen.
>> In Italian, for example, the word 'investimento' means both
>> financial investment and traffic accident. And both of those
>> meanings evolved from the original meaning of putting on clothing.
>>
>> John
>>
>>
>>
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