John
I have read both of your books,
and I have read your paper, which
you referred me to previously. (01)
Dick
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From: "John F. Sowa" <sowa@xxxxxxxxxxx>
To: "[ontolog-forum]" <ontolog-forum@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Wednesday, March 25, 2009 10:54 PM
Subject: Re: [ontolog-forum] semantics of the mKR language (02)
> Dick,
>
> What you have been doing is not even up to the level that the
> linguists, logicians, philosophers, and computer scientists
> were developing and implementing in the 1970s and early '80s.
> See, for example, the work on Montague grammar, situation
> semantics, discourse representation structures, and related
> topics. All of them went far beyond what you've been trying
> to do with your context fields -- and they did it 20 or 30
> years ago.
>
> RHM> I don't believe John or Pat have come to grips with the
> > meaning of symbols in any natural language, e.g., English.
>
> I can assure you that Pat has been working and collaborating
> with people in those fields for a long time. If you want to
> bring your work up to the level of the 1980s, I recommend my
> 1984 book, _Conceptual Structures_, which discusses and refers
> to those areas. You can find most of that material in my
> on-line bibliography:
>
> http://www.jfsowa.com/bib.htm
>
> If you want to come up to the 1990s level, you can read my
> book _Knowledge Representation_ and many other recent
> publications that are also in that bibliography. I also
> refer to a great deal of the historical and recent work
> in the paper _Pursuing the Goal of Language Understanding_:
>
> http://www.jfsowa.com/pubs/pursuing.pdf
>
> RHM> I have not tried to do more complex reasoning. I have
> > devoted my efforts to exploring different applications to see
> > if mKR could adequately describe those applications.
>
> Many the people we have been citing have developed systems
> and notations that describe those areas and reason about them.
> As I said before, you should *study* their work before
> reinventing a flat wheel.
>
> John
>
>
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