[ontolog-forum] Fwd: Charles Fillmore died at age 84

[Matthew Kaufman <mkfmncom@xxxxxxxxx>]

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From: Matthew Kaufman <mkfmncom@xxxxxxxxx>
Date: Fri, Feb 21, 2014 at 8:39 PM
Subject: Fwd: [ontolog-forum] Charles Fillmore died at age 84
To: Damion Nabarrete <damion.nabarrete@xxxxxxxxx>

Thanks for sharing yet another history event in play

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From: John F Sowa <sowa@xxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Fri, Feb 21, 2014 at 3:36 PM
Subject: [ontolog-forum] Charles Fillmore died at age 84
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Chuck Fillmore, who is widely known for his work on case grammar and
related issues, died at age 84.  George Lakoff wrote a very nice
summary of his life and work:

http://georgelakoff.com/2014/02/18/charles-fillmore-discoverer-of-frame-semantics-dies-in-sf-at-84-he-figured-out-how-framing-works/

I agree with almost all of what Lakoff wrote.  My only reservation
is his claim that all the great ideas in cognitive science were
invented in the past 40 years -- and usually in some group in
which he participated.

Fillmore certainly deserves a great deal of credit for his work on
case grammar.  But the following articles provide some background
on related work:

Minsky's 1974 article on frames (see the bibliography):

    http://web.media.mit.edu/~minsky/papers/Frames/frames.html

My article on semantic networks:

    http://www.jfsowa.com/pubs/semnet.htm

For my review of Lakoff's 1999 book (generally positive),
but with some criticism of his writing style:

    http://www.jfsowa.com/pubs/lakoff.htm

John

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