- From: Seth Russell <seth@robustai.net>
- Date: Tue, 8 May 2001 14:57:36 -0700
- To: "SWKR" <swkr@sw.blogspace.com>, "Murray Altheim" <altheim@eng.sun.com>
- Cc: "pat hayes" <phayes@ai.uwf.edu>, "Guha" <guha@alpiri.com>, "Tim Berners-Lee" <timbl@w3.org>, "RDF-IG" <www-rdf-interest@w3.org>, "Lee Jonas" <lee.jonas@cakehouse.co.uk>
From: "Murray Altheim" <altheim@eng.sun.com> > > [1] http://robustai.net/mentography/TheLilyDone2Ways.gif > > Seth, I think your approach to this is quite interesting, but it's not > really addressing two points philosophically, though this shouldn't be > taken as a criticism because I don't know that it's *possible*. If you > read Paul Prueitt's and Kevin Johnson's replies to me today on the > topicmapmail@infoloom.com list, Paul at least agrees from a more formal > ontological perspective, and Kevin's input seems to move in the same > direction. Fun stuff nevertheless, and I think some good ideas are > flowing. > > The two points are these: > > 1. You can't bridge the gap between reality and representation > of reality. ...[good stuff snipped...] There's a great flaw in > believing one can capture universal truths inside of limited > representation systems, though this has never stopped anyone > from trying. I totally agree. But what you can do is to close ~a~ world, represent things which are outside of the world with nodes which are inside of it, and then encourage a communitiy of such worlds to communicate. Please see my thesis diagarm [2]. [2] http://robustai.net/mentography/CoherentExperience.gif I have no commont on your second point .. perhaps it is out of my field of expertise and\or interest. Incidentally there is a group of us students and tool makers who are trying to form a cross disciplinary mailing list where we can ask luminaries in fields such as semantics, formal logic, philosophy of mind, linguistics, complexity theory, and computer science some questions about how to make this emerging Semantic Web work. We would like you to join our panel. If you (or the other estemeed recients of this email) feel you have the time, please go to http://sw.blogspace.com/ and subscribe your preferred email address. The traffic is relatively low and discussion is proceeding in a thoughtful and scholarly manner. Eventually we hope to have an associated wiki, where we can record in a interrelated manner our hopefully growing understanding of these matters. [3] Archives at http://sw.blogspace.com/archives/swkr/ Seth Russell
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