Pat, (01)
I've been scanning some of this ontolog discussion (I was curious why
it was generating so much traffic) and finding myself in total
agreement with you. I'm wondering when that happened. (02)
-Chris (sent from my iPhone) (03)
On Jan 25, 2009, at 4:58 PM, Pat Hayes <phayes@xxxxxxx> wrote: (04)
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> On Jan 25, 2009, at 3:41 PM, paola.dimaio@xxxxxxxxx wrote:
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>> Hi Pat
>>
>> . Natural language is not a formalism.
>>
>> Kindly provide your definition for formalism, so that we can
>> put your authority in the right context
>>
>
> I was using the term in a linguistic/philosophical context, to mean a
> formal language or notation, the archetypical example being FOL.
> Formal in this sense means that the syntax is exactly specified in a
> formal grammar, which for these purposes can be defined to be a
> context-free EBNF grammar, though other grammar notations are
> acceptable. English, like all other natural languages, has never been
> formalized in this sense and never will be, because it is in a
> constant state of dynamic change.
>
> PatH
>
>
>> thanks!!!
>>
>> PDM
>>
>>
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