RE: What do the ontologists want

Leo Obrst wrote,
> Pat is correct, however, in that the quoted material is really in a 
> different language and as such is syntactically only a string, 
> without known semantics (or only string semantics).

Hmm ... I agree with that. My only quibble with pat centres on his 
statement that quotation, with or without syntactic structure, is of 
limited value. If we want to be able to assign an interpretation it's 
essential.

Cheers,


Miles

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Received on Tuesday, 15 May 2001 17:12:15 UTC