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- From: Lisa Rein <lisarein@finetuning.com>
- To: Frank Boumphrey <bckman@ix.netcom.com>
- Date: Sat, 25 Apr 1998 22:40:33 -0700
Yes, but they do so declaratively, right? Rather than programmatically.
lisa
Frank Boumphrey wrote:
>
> The meaning of a word is its use. (L. Wittgenstein)
> "When I use a word it means exactly what I mean it to mean" (Tweedledum)
>
> Heres what the OED (Oxford English Dictionary) has to say on the subject
>
> semantics:- relating to meaning
>
> behaviour:- Conduct or course of action ...handling, disposition of..
>
> schemata:- Any one of certain forms or rules of the 'productive imagination'
> through which the understanding is able to apply its 'catagories' to the
> manifold of sense-perception in the process of realizing knowledge or
> experience. (Now that really clarifies the meaning of that word!!!<g>)
>
> ontologies:- Studies pertaining to the nature of being or the essence of
> things, or to being in the abstract.
>
> taxonomy:-That particular branch of science that relates to classification.
> (Now that one I knew!!)
>
> So according to the OED style sheets handle both semantics and and behaviour
>
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