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Re: [ontolog-forum] Another approach

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From: "John F. Sowa" <sowa@xxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Sun, 24 Feb 2008 00:12:55 -0500
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Dear Matthew,    (01)

Just one more comment:    (02)

MW> It sounds to me that Ronald is assuming that things he
> doesn't know about don't exist.    (03)

I agree his comment that "the agent must discover its own
reality" is misleading at best and wrong if taken literally.    (04)

But I had interpreted his use of the word as a synonym for
the word 'Lebenswelt' or 'Innenwelt".  (See the definitions
below by John Deely, following the work by Jakob von Uexk�ll.)    (05)

Instead of confusing people by using the word 'reality' in
a metaphorical sense.  I recommend the words 'Lebenswelt'
or 'Innenwelt' as useful technical terms.    (06)

John
_______________________________________________________________    (07)

From    (08)

http://web.archive.org/web/20060221134707/http://www.ut.ee/SOSE/deely.htm    (09)

Umwelt (UW) -- "a vehicle for expressing especially the role
of biological heritage in the use and function of signs, rather
than for expressing what is species-specifically human in the
use and function of signs."  (Deely's definition)    (010)

Lebenswelt (LW) -- "I have proposed that the term Lebenswelt
should be adopted to express an Umwelt which is species-
specifically human, retaining Umwelt to express the generic
idea of an objective world which is in every case species-
pecific consequent upon biological constitution."  (Deely)    (011)

Innenwelt (IW) -- The inner world of human experience, thought,
mental models, feelings, wishes, hopes, fears, etc.    (012)



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