[topicmapmail] basics II - Inheritance in Topic Maps

[Jack Park]

At 06:09 AM 6/3/2003, Murray Altheim wrote:
>I've been recently reading
>a little of Robert Brandom ("Articulating Reasons"), and I agree with
>his basic pragmatic premise that it is language that defines thinking,
>not the other way around (though they are of course inextricably
>linked). By this reasoning, there may be as many ontological expressions
>as there are people; by definition this would seem to be the case.

If I recall rightly, it was precisely that line of reasoning, that language 
defines thinking, aka: Sapir-Whorf Hypothesis 
http://venus.va.com.au/suggestion/sapir.html that provoked the late James 
Cooke Brown to create Loglan http://www.loglan.org/ which I have long 
thought to be a good candidate for a "natural language" for computing, 
assuming everyone would embrace yet another tongue.

Jack


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