- From: Jim Hendler <hendler@cs.umd.edu>
- Date: Thu, 30 May 2002 15:22:23 -0400
- To: patrick hayes <phayes@ai.uwf.edu>, Dan Connolly <connolly@w3.org>
- Cc: www-rdf-logic@w3.org
I can't help thinking that our problem is rhetoric and not technology. From [1]: >synecdoche >[Latin synecdoche, from Greek synekdoche, from synekdechesthai 'to >receive jointly', from syn 'with' and ekdechesthai 'to receive', >from ek 'out' and dechesthai 'to receive'.] Rhetoric A figure of >speech which a part is put for the whole (fifty sail for fifty >ships), the whole for a part (the smiling year for spring), the >species for the genus (cutthroat for assassin), the genus for the >species (a creature for a man), the name of the material for the >thing made, etc. See TROPE. > > >trope >[French or Latin; French trope, from Latin tropus, from Greek tropos >'a turning', 'turn'; akin to Greek trope 'a turn', trepein 'to >turn', Sanskrit trapate 'he is ashamed', 'he turns away', and >probably to Latin turpis 'foul', 'base'. Cf. TROPHY, TROPIC, >TURPITUDE.] 5. Rhetoric The use of a word or expression in a >different sense from that which properly belongs to it, for giving >life or emphasis to an idea; also, an instance of such use; a figure >of speech. Tropes are chiefly four kinds: metaphor, metonymy, >synecdoche, and irony. [1] http://www.earnestspeakers.com/figuresofspeech.html -- Professor James Hendler hendler@cs.umd.edu Director, Semantic Web and Agent Technologies 301-405-2696 Maryland Information and Network Dynamics Lab. 301-405-6707 (Fax) Univ of Maryland, College Park, MD 20742 240-731-3822 (Cell) http://www.cs.umd.edu/users/hendler
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