Todd, (01)
I also don't understand what you mean. I do think that natural language
semantics (and formal language semantics) is well-founded, as I've argued here,
though it is incomplete or rather, partial. (02)
The formal pragmatics area, for example, is barely touched. Really there are
only first steps towards a pragmatics of formal languages yet, but folks do use
pragmas as indicators to compilers about intent. And of course agent
communication languages like KQML and ACL use speech act performatives (and
finite states which represent those). (03)
Thanks,
Leo (04)
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[mailto:ontolog-forum-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Christopher Menzel
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Subject: Re: [ontolog-forum] Fact Guru, Controlled NLs, and OOR (05)
On Mar 30, 2011, at 3:52 PM, Todd J Schneider wrote:
> Ed,
>
> "...turtles all the way down..." Exactly. This is an overlooked
> point (among others) in many of these discussions. Natural
> language semantics (and natural languages) are not well
> founded. The application of the notion of interpretation
> from First Order Logic in these arenas also suffers from
> this attribute. (06)
Could you explain what you mean by that? (07)
-chris (08)
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