At 6:46 PM -0500 3/3/08, John Cowan wrote: Cutting to the chase, as philosophical debates are inappropriate to this forum: > >> RDF and OWL already have identity built into their model theories, so >> we don't need anything new to have that. > >They have formal identity, but not grounded identity, and it's grounding >that we need in order to be talking about anything. Indeed. Exactly. And one cannot get grounding by making purely formal assertions, even if they are called 'declarations' and you have to believe them, on pain of being very naughty. David wants to get grounding, but he's going about it the wrong way. Pat -- --------------------------------------------------------------------- IHMC (850)434 8903 or (650)494 3973 home 40 South Alcaniz St. (850)202 4416 office Pensacola (850)202 4440 fax FL 32502 (850)291 0667 cell http://www.ihmc.us/users/phayes phayesAT-SIGNihmc.us http://www.flickr.com/pathayes/collections
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