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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…
Medieval Semiotics (meier-oeser, Stephan)
A close interconnection of logic and epistemology: from signification to representation
The definition of mental concepts as signa rerum also provides the basis of a close interconnection of logic and epistemology as it is characteristic especially of the later Middle Ages. In conjunction with this, a redefinition of the notion of signification (significare) is…
Rdf Primer
RDF statements: subject, predicate, object
RDF is based on the idea that the things being described have properties which have values, and that resources can be described by making statements, similar to those above, that specify those properties and values. RDF uses a particular terminology for talking about the…
The Ego Trick (baggini, Julian)
Mindstream emanation rather than rebirth
In practice, Buddhists seem to be ambivalent about the extent to which reincarnation is personal. For instance, many insist that even the terms ‘rebirth’ and ‘reincarnation’ are misleading, and that ‘mindstream emanation’ is better.
Thesauri Of Historical Periods – A Proposal For Standardization.
Period names mean different things to different archaeologists
Archaeologists create terminology about periods in order to classify finds by a schema of relative chronology (periods) and to relate sequences of settlements and cultures. The use of a certain terminology implies a number of ideas that may differ from researcher to researcher…
Defining periods and settling terminological disputes
The design of such thesauri contributes to: the basic problems of how to define cultural periods and their interrelations (even when precise time, space and other properties are debatable or even unknown), and to the applied problem of communication, that arises because of…
Where Are The Semantics In The Semantic Web?
4 questions for analyzing a sw system
Question 1: What is hardwired and what isn’t? Question 2: How much agreement is there among different Web sites in their use of terminology and in the similarity of the concepts being referred to? Question 3: To what extent are the semantics of the content clearly specified? Is…