SUO: Re: Logic, Topic Maps, & RDF

[Jon Awbrey <jawbrey@att.net>]

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sounds like a good last word on that,
probably time to look for a more
productive line of inquiry.

jon

John F. Sowa wrote:
> 
> 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

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