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Puntare sulle cose difficili

Italo Calvino, interpellato da un giornalista sul millennio entrante, diede la sua ricetta su quel che bisognava fare per dare senso alla vita e renderla significativa: «Bisogna puntare sulle cose difficili, eseguite alla perfezione, le cose che richiedono sforzo; diffidare della facilità, della faciloneria, del fare tanto per fare. E combattere l’astrattezza del linguaggio che ci viene imposta ormai da tutte le parti. Puntare sulla precisione, tanto nel linguaggio quanto nelle cose che si fanno».

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#meaning #language #efforts #life

Life was, in zen parlance, yugen — a kind of elevated purposelessness.

All the same, I read a couple of Watts’s books. They made a significant impact on me. The Meaning of Happiness (1940) and The Wisdom of Insecurity (1951) are…

Tim Lott – Zen Buddhism And Alan Watts #meaning #book #life

Agents must publicly declare their ontologies

The moment we accept the problem and grant that agents may not use the same terms to mean the same things, we need a way for an agent to discover what another…

Where Are The Semantics In The Semantic Web? #ontology #messages #task #specification #language #meaning

Discovering what another agent means

The moment we accept the problem and grant that agents may not use the same terms to mean the same things, we need a way for an agent to discover what another…

Where Are The Semantics In The Semantic Web? #ontology #messages #task #specification #language #meaning

Externalism and the stagnation of philosophy of language

Finally, more controversially, I think the philosophy of language has reached a period of relative stagnation because of certain common mistakes that surround…

Mind: A Brief Introduction (John R. Searle) #externalism #meaning #language

Informal semantics

At a further point along the continuum, the semantics are explicit and are expressed in an informal manner, e.g., a glossary or a text specification document…

Where Are The Semantics In The Semantic Web? #meaning #semantics #language #documents

Learning Chinese from a Chinese-Chinese dictionary

First, imagine a native English-speaker learning Chinese, armed only with a Chinese-Chinese dictionary. Harnard likens this to a cryptologist cracking a code.

Introducing Artificial Intelligence (Henry Brighton and Howard Selina) #symbol-grounding #language #meaning