- 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". language: Semenglish Seth foaf:mbox seth@robustai.net; hasHomePage http://robustai.net/~seth/index.htm ; (wants to show you) http://robustai.net/mentography/CoherentExperience.gif . Semenglish description "Is easily read and written by both computers and humans."; capability "Can be unambiguously translated into triples and\or RDF\XML with no loss of information."; see http://robustai.net/mentography/semenglish.html ; availability (upon request).
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