Re: Samples Of Common Sense

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SOCS.  Note 2

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DN = Duane Nickull

Here's the first morsel of peas 'n' porridge
in the pot, slightly more than nine days old.

DN: http://ontolog.cim3.net/forum/ontolog-forum/2007-07/msg00270.html
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| Not trying to start a nit picky argument, but
| I had always thought that real semantics are
| defined by how a term is used and what it is
| linked to in a physical world (which of course
| can be captured and expressed in an ontology).
| Otherwise any ontology is just a huge circular
| reference (like the English dictionary when
| void of any grounding.
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| How can one define and convey the true meaning of spicy food,
| heat, pain, etc. without the corresponding grounding experience?

Jon Awbrey

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