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#elements
From Encyclopedia To Ontology: Toward Dynamic Representation Of The Discipline Of Philosophy
Grab-bag categories
The most common problematic category names were those which seemed to be grab bag categories. A 'grab bag' category here is understood as one which groups together possibly heterogeneous elements which are 'leftovers' from more significant sibling decompositions [...] The…
Life, The Multiverse And Everything: An Introduction To The Ideas Of Humberto Maturana Interpreting Maturana
Consensual behaviour (linguistic behaviour) has not semantics
An observer could describe these interactions in semantic terms, i.e. one could ascribe meanings to the elements in the coordination of behaviour e.g. "the cat is telling his owner that he wants to go out". However Maturana is keen to point out that there is no intrinsic…
Medieval Semiotics (meier-oeser, Stephan)
Bacon classification of signs
Bacon presents a detailed classification of signs[24] by taking up, combining, and modifying elements of several prior sign typologies. The division of the two main classes of natural and given signs is taken from Augustine, the distinction between necessary and probable signs…
An emerging semiotic triangle
Thus, scriptura left aside, the remaining three elements are structurally organized along the lines of the prominent ‘semiotic triangle’ according to which signs refer to things by means of concepts
Process Ontology - Wikipedia, The Free Encyclopedia
Process
A process may be defined as a set of transformations of input elements into output elements with specific properties, with the transformations characterized by parameters and constraints, such as in manufacturing or biology. A process may also be defined as the workflows and…
Rdf Primer
rdf:ID and fragment identifiers
An important difference from previous examples is that, in line 5, the rdf:Description element has an rdf:ID attribute instead of an rdf:about attribute. Using rdf:ID specifies a fragment identifier, given by the value of the rdf:ID attribute (item10245 in this case, which…