John, (01)
On Sun, 2010-10-10 at 23:38 -0400, John F. Sowa wrote: (02)
The Graeme Hirst article (or a version of it) is online at: (03)
http://citeseerx.ist.psu.edu/viewdoc/summary?doi=10.1.1.13.54 (04)
> Since I talk about Wittgenstein in that article, I'd also like
> to quote Graeme Hirst, with whom I also agree:
>
> "The solution to any problem in artificial intelligence (AI)
> may be found in the writings of Wittgenstein, though the details
> of the implementation are sometimes rather sketchy."
>
> G. Hirst (2000) Context as a spurious concept, in Conference
> on Intelligent Text Processing and Computational Linguistics,
> Mexico City, pp. 273-287.
>
> For anybody who has read my article, I'd add the following point:
> each term that might be represented in SKOS could be used in an
> open-ended number of Wittgensteinian Satzsysteme or Sprachspiele,
> each of which could be formalized by a different ontology in the
> infinite lattice. One might use OWL to formalize those theories,
> but I would recommend a more expressive version of logic.
>
> I agree with Graeme that my article is a bit sketchy, but I am
> also writing more detailed articles about an implementation.
> (05)
Actually Graeme was talking about Wittgenstein's writings. (06)
Graeme has another observation about language that may be of interest: (07)
> This seems to arise from a combination of overenthusiasm for Western
>scientific method
> and a misunderstanding of the nature of language that borders on fear. In
>this view, language
> is a messy and highly imperfect medium that is not to be trusted, but rather
>must either be
> sidestepped entirely or be beaten into submission by means of logic and
>formalism.
(same article) (08)
Hope you are at the start of a great week! (09)
Patrick (010)
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