Re: [ontolog-forum] Copyright in Taxonomies: Leading case in US law (ADA

[Pavithra <pavithra_kenjige@xxxxxxxxx>]

>That is a questionable use of the term 'man made'.  It's equivalent
>claiming that birdsong is bird made or swimming is fish made.

If you say birdsong is a language, and sign is language,  I have no further argument on that statement...

However I  meant about current day languages that are being used, that have written scriptures for documentation purpose.   ( Some languages do not have written scriptures)

Topic about roots of Western Philosophy..

I have a more interesting topic that I am studying about.   It is about roots of Western Philosophy.  There is a lot of historical evidence of strong interactions between Greeks and Indians  between  6 th century BC to 1 century.  Especially around northern western part of India  and Taxila where they had Buddhist and Hindu religious and philosophical centers and universities.   Veda and Upanishads were knowledge base of Hindu culture and included scientific and mathematical, linguistic knowledge as well.   It is referred as Indo - Greek era..

  It is documented that Aristotle (384 BC – 322 BC)  was a teacher of Alexander the Great.   Chandragupta Mauyra , the India Emperor  known as Sandrokyptos (Σανδρόκυπτος), Sandrokottos (Σανδρόκοττος) or Androcottus in Greek 
He was married to Seleucus 1 Nicator's  daughter and child, shows Indo Greek lenieage of the Ancient India's Maurya Dynasty. 
The Taxila University professor -  Chanukya (c. 350–283 BCE) was Chandragupta' Maurya's advisor.   Chanukya is as important in Indian History as Aristotle to Greeks.

I wonder whether Greeks philosophers were influenced by India's great Ancient knowledge since western philosophy evolved rapidly around that period ??    ( no offense to westerner or followers of western philosophy..)!

Regards,
Pavithra










--- On Sat, 10/30/10, John F. Sowa <sowa@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

From: John F. Sowa <sowa@xxxxxxxxxxx>
Subject: Re: [ontolog-forum] Copyright in Taxonomies: Leading case in US law (ADA v. Delta Dental)
To: ontolog-forum@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Date: Saturday, October 30, 2010, 10:36 AM

On 10/30/2010 9:46 AM, Pavithra wrote:
> Language itself is man made.

That is a questionable use of the term 'man made'.  It's equivalent
to claiming that birdsong is bird made or swimming is fish made.

Saying that something is man made implies that somebody deliberately
made it.  But until early humans had reached a level of language use
that enabled them to reflect on the nature and structure of language,
they didn't make any conscious decisions to invent or extend language.

In any case, the conscious decision behind this thread was to discuss
the legal status of copyrighting ontologies and other resources.

John


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