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Re: [ontolog-forum] The class of the planet Venus

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From: Kingsley Idehen <kidehen@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Fri, 13 Jul 2012 16:53:55 -0400
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On 7/13/12 4:34 PM, Ed Barkmeyer wrote:
>
> Kingsley Idehen wrote:
>> Ed,
>>
>> How about this, with a little more clarity on my side:
>>
>> Sign -- URI that denotes an entity/thing .
>>
>> Sense -- Web Document *Content* that describes URI referent e.g., via 
>structured content that takes the form of an entity-attribue-value graph where 
>each attribute=value pair coalesces around a Subject URI .
>>
>> Reference -- Description Subject or URI Referent.
>>
>> Thus, when using the World Wide Web from my computing device (desktop,
>> notebook, tablet, or phone) I can de-reference a URI and then use my
>> screen to sense what said URI denotes.
> Yes.  The (semantic) *Content* of the Resource/Document is the Sense.
> (BTW, the English term "Sense" has meanings that no German would impute
> to Frege's "Sinn".  Sinn is about understanding, about 'making sense'.
> It is the opposite of Unsinn = Nonsense.  It has nothing to do with the
> 5 'senses' and what they do, which in German is called 'spueren'.
> (English 'spoor' has the same root.) So what you do with your screen is
> to 'obtain the Sense' of the URI, by using perception and interpretation
> skills on the presented Document.)
>
> I have argued with the SBVR folk and some RDF folk that 'structured
> content' and a 'structure of meaning' are terms for Sense when they
> refer to the notional intent that is built up piecewise from more
> elementary intent.   That is, there is no difference in kind between the
> 'structural content' of an English sentence and the 'structural content'
> of an RDF graph, although they involve different structures.  They are
> both just ways of constructing a complex meaning from simpler meanings.
> The English sentence as sound or text, and any exchange form of the RDF
> graph, are expressions in languages that convey the intended meaning by
> representing those structures.  The idea that in humans the nature of
> meaning is really different from the structure of meaning created from
> the language is a matter of hot debate, but it is irrelevant to
> knowledge engineering -- we can only deal with meaning developed from
> structure.
>
> -Ed    (01)

Great! It's a wrap then :-)    (02)


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Regards,    (04)

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