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Re: Can there be a URI for the concepts "I", "you", "this", "it", "here", "there", "now", etc.?

From: Richard H. McCullough <rhm@cdepot.net>
Date: Mon, 18 Dec 2006 16:24:02 -0800
Message-ID: <002101c72304$040a1740$0700000a@rhm8200>
To: "Richard H. McCullough" <rhm@cdepot.net>, "Joshua Tauberer" <jt@occams.info>
Cc: <semantic-web@w3.org>, "KR-language" <KR-language@YahooGroups.com>

Shown below is some actual output from the MKE program
which shows the classification of these concepts in the
default context "tabula_rasa".
"ke$ " is the MKE prompt.
The "i:" prefix indicates an instance of a concept.
In other words "here", "there", "now" are constants,
which you might say is not correct,
but is OK in the current version of MKE.

ke$ view := ? ;
let view = tabula rasa;
ke$ I isa* ? ;
I
\  pronoun
\\    variable
\\\      attribute
\\\\        characteristic
\\\\\          existent
ke$ you isa* ? ;
you
\  pronoun
\\    variable
\\\      attribute
\\\\        characteristic
\\\\\          existent
ke$ this isa* ? ;
this
ke$ it isa* ? ;
it
\  pronoun
\\    variable
\\\      attribute
\\\\        characteristic
\\\\\          existent
ke$ here isa* ? ;
i:here
\  space
\\    attribute
\\\      characteristic
\\\\        existent
ke$ there isa* ? ;
i:there
\  space
\\    attribute
\\\      characteristic
\\\\        existent
ke$ now isa* ? ;
i:now
\  time
\\    attribute
\\\      characteristic
\\\\        existent
ke$ exit;

Dick McCullough
knowledge := man do identify od existent done;
knowledge haspart proposition list;
http://rhm.cdepot.net/
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Richard H. McCullough" <rhm@cdepot.net>
To: "Joshua Tauberer" <jt@occams.info>
Cc: <semantic-web@w3.org>; "KR-language" <KR-language@YahooGroups.com>
Sent: Monday, December 18, 2006 8:06 AM
Subject: Re: Can there be a URI for the concepts "I", "you", "this", "it", 
"here", "there", "now", etc.?


>
> Context is a central concept in my MKR language.
> If you want to explore the use of context, functions, etc.
> try my MKE program: http://rhm.cdepot.net
>
> Dick McCullough
> knowledge := man do identify od existent done;
> knowledge haspart proposition list;
> http://rhm.cdepot.net/
> ----- Original Message ----- 
> From: "Joshua Tauberer" <jt@occams.info>
> To: "John Black" <JohnBlack@kashori.com>
> Cc: <semantic-web@w3.org>
> Sent: Monday, December 18, 2006 5:19 AM
> Subject: Re: Can there be a URI for the concepts "I", "you", "this", "it", 
> "here", "there", "now", etc.?
> <snip>
>
>> That would be fine, except afaik the only way to publish a triple in an
>> embedded context is with N3 formulas.  You can't, for instance, create
>> an embedded context in RDF/XML.  (It wouldn't be sufficient to add a
>> triple to an RDF/XML document to say "hey, this is one of those
>> documents where you interpret <indexicals.owl#I> as ME" because it
>> doesn't solve the problem that oblivious applications won't know to do
>> that.)
> <snip>
>
>
> 
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