On 4/28/2012 9:36 PM, Obrst, Leo J. wrote:
> Wow, there is a lot of information here! Which is good. Usually the use
> cases we are used to are vastly underspecified. (01)
I agree that marriage is a good example that covers a lot of territory,
and this specification is better than most. (02)
But it makes the mistake of using the term 'speech act' too broadly. (03)
> There are various ways to form speech act forms to communicate the above
> predicates, such as:
>
> 1: There exists a person <FirstName>
>
> 2: <Person> is born on <BirthDate>.
>
> 3: <Person> is <Gender>.
>
> 4: <Person> died on <DeathDate>. (04)
The first three of the liberal arts are logic, grammar, and rhetoric.
Speech acts are part of *rhetoric* -- the art of persuasion. Rhetoric
depends on logic, but logic itself is prior to rhetoric. (05)
What I find so frustrating is that every university graduate in the 19th
century knew these issues. I recommend the following textbook, which
Sister Miriam wrote for her *freshman* course at St. Mary's College
from the 1937 to 1960: (06)
Joseph, Sister Miriam (1937) The Trivium: The Liberal Arts of Logic,
Grammar, and Rhetoric, Third edition 1948, reprinted by Paul Dry
Books, 2002. (07)
She taught this course to *English majors* -- anybody who took that
course from Sister Miriam would be better qualified to do knowledge
representation in any version of logic than most comp. sci. majors. (08)
John (09)
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