On Oct 9, 2008, at 4:57 PM, Rob Freeman wrote:
> Chris,
>
> On Fri, Oct 10, 2008 at 3:17 AM, Christopher Menzel
> <cmenzel@xxxxxxxx> wrote:
>>
>> More generally, then, the answer to your question "who [better:
>> what] sez how many relations are enough to provide denotations for
>> all the relation-naming terms in the language?" is: "The language
>> and its semantics." And how many relations are needed, for a given
>> language +semantics, can be determined quite precisely.
>
> How many are needed for English? (01)
Good heavens, the question doesn't even make sense. And even if it
did, it wouldn't be pertinent to the context of this thread -- which,
even on your end, has been "ontologies", "systems" and "models" -- or
to ontolog-forum generally. (02)
-chris (03)
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