Re: [ontolog-forum] Universal Basic Semantic Structures

[John Bottoms <john@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On 9/26/2012 11:04 PM, William Frank wrote:

"Pat, my point is that when you describe something, you are ipso facto classifying it. That is just what a description does. It specifies the set of things that fit the description, even if that is a singleton."  

I'm not sure I agree, it depends on what you mean by "describe". If you have an unknown and you enumerate its properties..."It is black"...it seems that you are in a position to create a list of candidates, but are not ready to classify it just yet.

Alternately, if you describe its base concept, then I would agree with you.

-John Bottoms
 FirstStar Systems
 Concord, MA

_________________________________________________________________
Message Archives: http://ontolog.cim3.net/forum/ontolog-forum/  
Config Subscr: http://ontolog.cim3.net/mailman/listinfo/ontolog-forum/  
Unsubscribe: mailto:ontolog-forum-leave@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Shared Files: http://ontolog.cim3.net/file/
Community Wiki: http://ontolog.cim3.net/wiki/ 
To join: http://ontolog.cim3.net/cgi-bin/wiki.pl?WikiHomePage#nid1J    (01)