- From: Steven Gollery <sgollery@cadrc.calpoly.edu>
- Date: Wed, 17 Apr 2002 11:22:34 -0700
- To: Pat Hayes <phayes@ai.uwf.edu>
- CC: www-rdf-logic@w3.org
Pat, Thanks for the reply. It's going to take a while for me to really digest all that you're saying, but there is one phrase that I can perhaps respond to: > Model theory makes some assumptions about the >world, of course, in order to even be stated (eg that the world >contains individual things that have properties), but those are not >embodied in any particular 'context': they are the assumptions that >the formal language itself is predicated on, the assumptions that are >built into its very structure. If they were false, then the formal >language would be meaningless, and the semantic theory agrees with >that judgement. "the assumptions that the formal language itself is predicated on, the assumptions that are built into its very structure" -- that's what I was trying to get at with the word "context". It might have been better if I had written something like "the context of the representation of the meaning. " I appreciate your efforts to help me understand these issues. Steve
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