Re: SUO: Re: Logic, Topic Maps, & RDF

["John F. Sowa" <sowa@bestweb.net>]

Jon,

That is another important distinction:

 > I was speaking about the distinction between physics
 > and philology, figments that we fit to reality and
 > figments that we fit into fits, in the lay sense
 > of the term.

Physics is the subject that studies and categorizes
what exists in the physical world.  It is essential
to building up the set of categories that we need to
represent the things that exist in the world

Philology studies words and how they came to aquire
the features and relationships they have.  It is
essential to building up the set of categories that
we need to represent the way people talk about
the world and their ways of viewing it.

John