Thursday, February 23, 2006
The Second School of Semantic Science
ontologyMapping Glass Bead Games
On the limits of the OWL standard à [184]
Reading material [1]
Reading material [2]
Reading material [3]
Summary of the discussion up to this point à [186]
How does an n-ary come about?
The neighborhood of a five tuple, using Orb technology
The answer is through empirical observation. The observation is about the co-occurrence of semantic atoms. (semanticAtoms – also future link to a wiki for definition). The n-tuple for a chemical compound is not the full knowledge of the compound available from modern chemistry. So one needs a theory to be applied to an n-ary.
Not all arbitrary n-aries are meaningful. The availability of a theory allows a human to impart a full sense of “interpreted meaning”.
A formal theory may also impart an interpreted meaning (also future link to a wiki for definition). However, the two process of interpretation have similarities and differences. So what one “means” by “theory” depends to some extend on whether the theory is something understood by a human or human community, or is a “formal theory” that is encodes as a formalism, such as mathematics, a description logic (also future link to a wiki for definition), or as a situational logic (also future link to a wiki for definition ) of some type not yet determined.