Michele Pasin / Quotes

Some ways of carving up the world are better

shows how the postmodernists were right: there is nothing inevitable about the way we think about the world. We can carve it up in many different ways. What they fail to stress, though, is that some carvings-up are better and more truthful than others. We can indeed think…

Saved 23 April 2015

#postmodernism #truth #categories

A class is a category of shared traits

A class is a category of items that share one or more common traits serving as criteria to identify the items belonging to the class.

Cidoc-crm Version 4.2.4 - Reference Document #traits #class #categories #items #criteria

Orthogonality in faceted classifications

A true polyhierarchy really needs its individual hierarchies to be independent or orthogonal. Types in one should be independent of types in the other. That…

Classification, Facets, And Metaproperties #types #categories #levels #combination #implications

What counts as a class in RDF Schema

RDF classes can be used to represent almost any category of thing, such as Web pages, people, document types, databases or abstract concepts. Classes are…

Rdf Primer #types #class #categories #people #database #resources

A quick trick instead of the truth

more polarization the better. In the environment in which they evolved, this trick was a useful guide to behavior and allowed them to avoid constructing a…

Beyond Zero and One (Andrew Smart) #perception #evolution #truth #behavior

A thesaurus reflects an historical state of knowledge

It must be clear, that a thesaurus can never reflect absolute truth but only a historical stage of knowledge.

Thesauri Of Historical Periods – A Proposal For Standardization. #truth #thesaurus #knowledge #stage

After of the ending of absolute values, a life of tranquillity is the only solution (granted a man has the right temperament for it)

For Tranquility.—But will not our philosophy become thus a tragedy? Will not truth prove the enemy of life, of betterment? A question seems to weigh upon our…

Human, All Too Human: A Book For Free Spirits #truth #life #nature #knowledge #human-life