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From Encyclopedia To Ontology: Toward Dynamic Representation Of The Discipline Of Philosophy
Criticism: weakness of isa relation on the idea category; isa is not used in a context-independent manner
The most serious form of this last worry centers on the semantics of the isa relation. The isa class subsumption relation is often presumed to hold in a context-general way and capture “purely ontological” relations; if it is true that “A isa B”, then any A in any context…
The Functional Art: An Introduction To Information Graphics And Visualization
Importance of presenting data clearly
Here’s the lesson I learned from this exercise: In just three or four hours of work, I completed a personal project that allowed me to see the evidence supporting Matt Ridley’s discussion on the evolution of fertility. His hypotheses seem to have some basis after all. But if…