Michele Pasin / Quotes

Mindstream emanation rather than rebirth

In practice, Buddhists seem to be ambivalent about the extent to which reincarnation is personal. For instance, many insist that even the terms ‘rebirth’ and ‘reincarnation’ are misleading, and that ‘mindstream emanation’ is better.

Saved 23 April 2015

#reincarnation #Buddhism #terminology

4 questions for analyzing a sw system

Question 1: What is hardwired and what isn’t? Question 2: How much agreement is there among different Web sites in their use of terminology and in the…

Where Are The Semantics In The Semantic Web? #semantics #Web-sites #concept #terminology #similarity

A close interconnection of logic and epistemology: from signification to representation

The definition of mental concepts as signa rerum also provides the basis of a close interconnection of logic and epistemology as it is characteristic…

Medieval Semiotics (meier-oeser, Stephan) #mental-concepts #signification #terminology #concept

Defining periods and settling terminological disputes

The design of such thesauri contributes to: the basic problems of how to define cultural periods and their interrelations (even when precise time, space and…

Thesauri Of Historical Periods – A Proposal For Standardization. #cultural-period #terminology #communication #literature

Description logic vs other formalisms

A Description Logic (DL) models concepts, roles and individuals, and their relationships.The fundamental modeling concept of a DL is the axiom - a logical…

Description Logic - Wikipedia, The Free Encyclopedia #concept #terminology #community #notion

Period names mean different things to different archaeologists

Archaeologists create terminology about periods in order to classify finds by a schema of relative chronology (periods) and to relate sequences of settlements…

Thesauri Of Historical Periods – A Proposal For Standardization. #terminology #name #culture #researchers #cultural-period #concept

RDF statements: subject, predicate, object

RDF is based on the idea that the things being described have properties which have values, and that resources can be described by making statements, similar…

Rdf Primer #things #statements #RDF #terminology