- From: John Black <JohnBlack@deltek.com>
- Date: Wed, 7 Apr 2004 21:13:17 -0400
- To: "Pat Hayes" <phayes@ihmc.us>
- Cc: <public-sw-meaning@w3c.org>
> From: Pat Hayes [mailto:phayes@ihmc.us] > Sent: Tuesday, April 06, 2004 9:54 PM > To: John Black [snip of lots of good stuff] > Software knows zilch and is dumb as dirt, > so instead we have to actually convey the needed 'shared common > knowledge' or whatever you call it in the form of explicit > ontologies. Fortunately the global 'open' structure of the Web at > least holds out the hope of a system of mutually used ontologies (and > hence agreed-on, in effect, though its the mutual use that really > matters) providing this kind of shared background understanding of > meanings. Mutual use or agreed-on, it must surely happen prior to the successful exchange and interpretation of my message. But how can I be sure that my terms will be interpreted according to the ontology they were created with? I certainly don't want any triples, with truth values attached, attributed to me, if the URIs are going to be interpreted according to a different ontology than the one I used to code my message. I would say that in critical cases, I would insist on, that is, stipulate, that the ontology used to interpret my triples, be the same one I used form them. John > > Pat > > > > >John Black > > > -- > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > IHMC (850)434 8903 or (650)494 3973 home > 40 South Alcaniz St. (850)202 4416 office > Pensacola (850)202 4440 fax > FL 32501 (850)291 0667 cell > phayes@ihmc.us http://www.ihmc.us/users/phayes > >
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