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#definition
Beyond Zero and One (Andrew Smart)
Koch's caveat on definitions
However, as neuroscientist Christof Koch has remarked:
First Normal Form - Wikipedia, The Free Encyclopedia
First normal form
First normal form (1NF) is a property of a relation in a relational database. A relation is in first normal form if the domain of each attribute contains only atomic values, and the value of each attribute contains only a single value from that domain. [...] Edgar F. Codd's…
Historical Event-based Access To Museum Collections
Sharing terminology
A clear definition of the shared terminology is a prerequisite for successful multidisciplinary collaboration. This need is particularly pressing within collaborative projects in the field of cultural heritage and computer science such as ours as each field has different…
Mind: A Brief Introduction (John R. Searle)
Identities discovered, not defined
The model for the behaviorists was one of definitional identities. Pains are dispositions to behavior in a way that triangles are three-sided plane figures. In each case it is a matter of definition. The identity theorists said no, the model is not definitions, but rather…
The mental qua mental is physical qua physical
This is one of the most important messages of this book. Once you revise the traditional categories to fit the facts, there is no problem in recognizing that the mental qua mental is physical qua physical. You have to revise the traditional Cartesian definitions of both…
Pain and our definitional practices
there is an asymmetry between colors on the one hand and pains and consciousness on the other, because we would lose the point of having the concepts of consciousness if we carved off the first-person ontology and redefined the words in third-person terms. In that sense the…
Ontologies And Knowledge Bases: Towards A Terminological Clarification
Ontological commitment is an intensional reference to a set of possible worlds
A set of formal constraints like those above, expressed in a suitable modal language, can therefore be used to (partially) characterize a conceptualization, in the sense of excluding unintended extensions of the relevant relations even for possible “worlds” different from the…
Semantic Web For The Humanities
Contextual knowledge in the humanities
Humanities ontologies require dynamic concept formalizations instead of static ones, especially for contested, open-textured or ambiguous concepts. The definition of such concepts needs to be dynamically built depending on their contexts. Examples of contextual knowledge are…
The Ego Trick (baggini, Julian)
Locke's definition of a person
John Locke’s definition of a person as a ‘thinking intelligent being that has reflection and can consider itself as itself, the same thinking thing in different times and places’.
Wittgenstein on the concept of game
Ludwig Wittgenstein is another thinker who can help explain why exactitude is not always possible. He saw that many words and concepts do not have precise rules for their use, and cannot have their meanings analysed in strict logical terms. Wittgenstein famously used the…
The Lean Startup (Eric Ries)
A broad definition of product
The fact that a startup’s product or service is a new innovation is also an essential part of the definition and a tricky part too. I prefer to use the broadest definition of product, one that encompasses any source of value for the people who become customers. Anything those…
The Tao Of Topic Maps
Glossary
A glossary is basically a list of terms and definitions. It can be thought of as a kind of index in which only one type of occurrence is of interest (the one that provides the “definition”), and which therefore includes the occurrence inline (instead of pointing to it via a…
Thesauri Of Historical Periods – A Proposal For Standardization.
Why historical periods are hard to define
The complex and multidimensional notion of cultural (historical or archaeological) period makes quite difficult a definition and a formal analysis of period and generally a relative chronological documentation.
The CRM definition of a period
Definition is the most important information category. It is about defining every notion of period in a specialized way. Cultural period is a multidimensional concept about complex interrelations between cultural phenomena. The CIDOC CRM defines the basic notion of a period…
What Are The Differences Between A Vocabulary, A Taxonomy, A Thesaurus, An Ontology, And A Meta-model?
What a controlled vocabulary is
A controlled vocabulary is a list of terms that have been enumerated explicitly. This list is controlled by and is available from a controlled vocabulary registration authority. All terms in a controlled vocabulary should have an unambiguous, non-redundant definition. This is a…
What Is A Versioned Article Cited In Medline/pubmed?
Version of record
A Version of Record is: "A fixed version of a journal article that has been made available by any organization that acts as a publisher by formally and exclusively declaring the article "published"." This NISO definition applies to every published article.
What Is Open Data? — Open Data Handbook
Open data is about interoperability
If you’re wondering why it is so important to be clear about what open means and why this definition is used, there’s a simple answer: interoperability. Interoperability denotes the ability of diverse systems and organizations to work together (inter-operate). In this case, it…