- From: Seth Russell <seth@robustai.net>
- Date: Sat, 7 Apr 2001 09:22:09 -0700
- To: "pat hayes" <phayes@ai.uwf.edu>
- Cc: <www-rdf-logic@w3.org>
From: "pat hayes" <phayes@ai.uwf.edu>
> >There is a word for that concept ... "supervenience" ... see Chalmers
[1].
>
> That isn't really quite right. Supervenience refers to a relation
> between theories which has a rather complicated philosophical
> definition (it is like being translateable to, except that the
> translation can vary from moment to moment, eg the notion of
> temperature is supervenient on molecular motion.). Drew is talking
> about something much simpler, which is assigning an interpretation to
> a language. It doesnt make sense to say that something supervenes on
> a language.
My point is that triples are excellent ~molecules~ on which a language can
supervene; any language .. a language of web meta data .. or even a formal
language designed to facilitate the discovery of relationships between
things. I would be iterested in talking about that; i'm not interested in
talking about some quasi-precise definition of "supervience".
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