Re: [ontolog-forum] Foundation ontology, CYC, and Mapping

[Jawit Kien <jawit.kien@xxxxxxxxx>]

On Tue, Feb 16, 2010 at 1:12 PM, Patrick Cassidy <pat@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

 Other possible sources of essential primitives could be the 3000 most frequent Chinese characters (covering 98.9% of modern text) and the 2000 most common signs of AMESLAN.  But these symbols have not been tested as a "defining vocabulary".

According to:

http://chinesewords.blogspot.com/2005/11/most-frequent-chinese-characters.html

just because you can recognise the characters, doesn't mean you know what they mean.
Apparently Chinese characters, much like other words in a natural language, depend
on the way they are used to disambiguate their meaning.

Perhaps we should be discussing that issue:

ie: what methods exist to disambiguate the meaning of a word or phrase, so that it can be precisely (enough for a purpose) axiomatised?

JK
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