Re: [xml-dev] What are units-of-measure? e.g., what's a "kilometer"?

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Re: [xml-dev] What are units-of-measure? e.g., what's a "kilometer"?
From: "Roger L. Costello" <>

> Consider this statement:
> 
>   "The length of the Yangtze River is 6300 kilometers."
> 
> What is a "kilometer"?

A term used in that sentence, probably part of an intended meaning to the
utterer expressed in some implicit and explicit context, probably part of
a received meaning to the recipient in some implicit and explicit
context, perhaps where the contexts were provided by yet other people?

But I think Roger's question is really "What programming paradigm
matches simple natural language assertions: object-oriented, functional,
frame-based (slots), or symbolic?"    Lol.

Cheers
Rick Jelliffe