Christopher (01)
thanks for understanding my point, I was not hoping to be taken so seriously
We all benefit from each other's perspectives, so thanks to near real
time exchanges
whatever we overlook in our statements hopefully others will pick on. (02)
regarding your (long) post
http://ontolog.cim3.net/forum/ontolog-forum/2008-01/msg00453.html
in order for me (and others perhaps) to comment I would be useful to
have the rationale sketched out in a few bullet points or a table, and
if you are thinking 'architecture' then a diagram would do the trick
nicely...are you really working on an architechture that could solve
all our complexity and contextualization problems?
if so, I am sure we all want to move to it....or at least keep your
notes at hand for when we design our own systems.... (03)
thanks to you!
best
p (04)
On 2/18/08, Christopher Spottiswoode <cms@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> Paola,
>
> Yes, you are 100% right: I am courting trouble with many such choices of
> words.
>
> Such is the cost of using existing words to communicate with. But gradual
> shifts in the meanings of words, even "linguistical stereotypes" as you
> allude to, are the stuff of verbal and technical creativity and any
> resulting innovation.
>
> So I have proceeded as if my proposed usages, in due course adjusted by
> people such as you on fora such as this, will eventually catch on. I am
> expecting, for example (to speculate as to the kind of red-flag-words you
> might have had in mind), that the rest of the world will help the
> "Democratic Web" survive its partisan meanings in the USA, that the
> facilitated infrastructures foreseen will help all of us preclude any
> "tyranny of the majority" and will also thereby in due course render "The
> Mainstream" as co-opted in my story "as inclusive as the presently excluded
> may wish" (to quote myself from long ago).
>
> Such confidence, more than somewhat apparently-premature though it may be,
> is based verifiably on the continuity of my software-architectural picture
> since I first published on it on the Web in 1996 (and since long before
> that, of course), and on the definite convergence with that picture by more
> recent architectural trends (okay, as I selectively focus on them...). The
> end will justify the means, while even the provocation might possibly have
> more than countervailing benefits.
>
> More crucially (if I may risk so loaded a word), there is nonetheless a more
> commonly-acceptable - or at least less widely-provocative - formulation of
> the greater social end, only it doesn't mean all that much to most people.
> That single goal is "to help people simplify complexity together." The
> rather inaccessible abstraction of that epistemological phraseology (Would
> you go along with that characterization?) helps explain why I am choosing to
> relaunch my story to an ontologist community. You will see how the
> fictional "top-down construction" I present in the first post of my planned
> series explicitly posits that as its goal. (The construction is fictional
> inasmuch as such representations are always ex post facto, as you know.)
>
> You raise the matter of ethics. A wider justification later of the
> epistemological goal will attempt to show how it is in fact "a single goal
> in broad and enriching support of every self-aware value-system" (as I put
> it elsewhere, in a piece which was well received by a significant readership
> I shalln't namedrop here).
>
> And (to pop less far up the philosophical stack) if application
> interoperation and human collaboration - already explicitly the motivation
> of my own involvement with ontologies - are to become more universal, I
> believe addressing some such epistemological or ontological goal should
> help.
>
> Certainly, however, I do believe most unwaveringly that wider philosophical
> perspectives, even where they cross the line into political matters, can
> help in usefully orienting and stabilizing our ontological endeavours. You
> shall be the judge in my case.
>
> So, many thanks, Paola, for the response! It is efforts such as yours which
> explain why this planned launch is intended as interactive rather than
> one-way as on most web pages.
>
> Meanwhile, I expect I would be able to give you an exhausting if not
> exhaustive justification as to why any one of your mooted 'politically
> incorrect statement parser and modifier' outputs would not be suitable here,
> all things taken into account. So be warned against any such challenges too
> lightly laid! :-)
>
> If I may echo myself from my initial mooting of this series (now at
> http://ontolog.cim3.net/forum/ontolog-forum/2008-01/msg00453.html), "such
> discussion will profit enormously from, and should therefore await, the
> detail I am suggesting I follow up with."
>
> Nonetheless, I do look forward genuinely to any correcting suggestions from
> anyone on an ontology mailinglist. So please keep them coming.
>
> Christopher
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: paola.dimaio@xxxxxxxxx
> To: [ontolog-forum]
> Sent: Sunday, February 17, 2008 3:49 PM
> Subject: Re: [ontolog-forum] What words mean
>
>
>
>
> As Pope said (Alexander, that is), "The proper study of
> mankind is man." Already, of course, "the Sabbath [as
> other ideologies] was made for man." The Existentialists
> also had a word or two to say on the matter.
>
> I am not going to say anything about the pain that lack of political
> correctness throughout history has brought upon humanity, however, I am sure
> an application can be built to parse all the politically incorrect
> statements that exist on the web and modify them accordingly to bring them
> up to current acceptable standards of ethics (else archived them under
> 'obsolete' label)
>
>
>
>
> There will be much recall of that whole scene in the series
> of postings I am working on. (And I hope you will see that as
> a promise, not a threat!)
>
> I hope you manage to address the inappropriateness of linguistical
> stereotypes in your posts too...
>
> ;-) look forward
>
>
> Paola Di Maio
> (05)
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School of IT
www.mfu.ac.th
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