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Description Logic - Wikipedia, The Free Encyclopedia
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 statement relating roles and/or concepts. This is a key difference from the frames paradigm where a frame specification…
Life, The Multiverse And Everything: An Introduction To The Ideas Of Humberto Maturana Interpreting Maturana
Control; productivity
The notion of control arises in the context of productivity. Maturana talks about 3 main modes in which we can act and these 3 are distinguished largely in terms of differences of intent. Firstly, the Science mode - the intent here is explanations. Secondly, the Technology mode…
Medieval Semiotics (meier-oeser, Stephan)
A turning point in the history of semiotics
Despite all the internal ruptures and inconsistencies, Augustine's doctrine of sign is based on a definition of the sign that, for the first time, intends to embrace both the natural indexical sign and the conventional linguistic sign as species of an all-embracing generic…
Nishida Kitarō (stanford Encyclopedia Of Philosophy)
Philosophy
...he defined philosophy as science [gakumon], i.e. unified conceptual knowledge, more specifically the first and universal science that “reflects on the basic concepts of the particular sciences in general and constructs of them one system of knowledge.” Yet “its object of…
Religion begins in knowing one's own death
His notion of the essentiality of religion is remarkably individualistic, removed from all social contingencies. He locates the core of religion in the heart of the individual: religious awareness arises in one's knowing one's own death.
Pluralism (philosophy) - Wikipedia, The Free Encyclopedia
Ontological pluralism
Ludwig Wittgenstein's notion of language-games argues that there is no over-arching, single, fundamental ontology, but only a patchwork of overlapping interconnected ontologies ineluctably leading from one to another. For example, Wittgenstein discusses 'number' as technical…
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…
Towards An Ontology Of Software: A Requirements Engineering Perspective
Artifacts have proper functions
notion of (technical) artifact. We are aware that many such notions have been discussed in the literature, but the one by Baker [20] works well for us: “Artifacts are objects intentionally made to serve a given purpose”; “Artifacts have proper functions that they are…