Re: [ontolog-forum] Scheduling a Discussion [was: CL, CG, IKL and the re

[Pat Hayes <phayes@xxxxxxx>]

At 4:32 PM -0500 1/16/08, Deborah MacPherson wrote:

> > RE: ......is there any kind of thing that could NOT be a
> > context, or part of a context, in this third sense? Or can a context
> > be anything, or perhaps any set of any things? If (as I suspect) the
> > latter, then this is not a definition of anything, as it does not
> > identify any actual category. - Pat Hayes
>
> Hi Pat, can you please explain why the
> identification of an actual category is the ultimate or preferred
> result of well-defined context (whether words or "any collection
> of things").

Not sure I understand the question. The identification of a category is what a definition does. The category in question is "context".

Heres my point, let me illustrate it with a parable. Joe comes along and says, we need to discuss foodles. Its important to have a general theory of foodles. And I say, hmm, what are foodles? And Joe says, everything is a foodle.

At this point, I conclude that what Joe wants is impossible, because there isn't anything useful to be said that applies to everything. Anything non-trivial will be true of some things and false of others: it will divide the universe into examples and non-examples. It will be a category.

Do you see the point?

Pat

> Thank you, Deborah MacPherson
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