- From: Thomas B. Passin <tpassin@comcast.net>
- Date: Wed, 12 Jun 2002 20:33:51 -0400
- To: www-rdf-logic@w3.org
[patrick hayes] [to Jim Hendler] > I know you have a built-in aversion to anything called "logic". This > is a problem that you need to come to terms with, and I sincerely > hope that you eventually manage to work your way through it. However, > in the meantime, I still want my bank to use software that conforms > to a very carefully checked protocol for transmitting > machine-readable content. If you have found a better way to be > precise about meaning, by all means put it forward as a suggestion; > but for Gods sake don't imply that "social agreements" must be > expressed in poetry and metaphor, and therefore the computers can all > make up their own minds about whether it is true that > Overdrawn PatHayes _:x . > _:x date "6_12_02" . You aren't going to get away from metaphor that easily! Your phrase "conforms to" is itself a metaphor. "Put it forward" is a metaphor. It's almost impossible for people to think and talk without metaphor, and probably those metaphors help the thinking. Cheers, Tom P
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