Michael K. Bergman • “Give Me a Sign : What Do Things Mean On The Semantic Web?”

Michael K. Bergman • “Give Me a Sign : What Do Things Mean On The Semantic Web?”

| The logic behind these distinctions and nuances leads us to Charles Sanders Peirce (1839–1914).
| Peirce (pronounced “purse”) was an American logician, philosopher and polymath of the first rank.
| Along with Frege, he is acknowledged as the father of predicate calculus and the notation system
| that formed the basis of first-order logic. His symbology and approach arguably provide the logical
| basis for description logics and other aspects underlying the semantic Web building blocks of the RDF
| data model and, eventually, the OWL language. Peirce is the acknowledged founder of pragmatism, the
| philosophy of linking practice and theory in a process akin to the scientific method. He was also the
| first formulator of existential graphs, an essential basis to the whole field now known as model theory.
| Though often overlooked in the 20th century, Peirce has lately been enjoying a renaissance with his
| voluminous writings still being deciphered and published.
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| http://www.mkbergman.com/994/give-me-a-sign-what-do-things-mean-on-the-semantic-web/

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