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Subject: RE: [huml-comment] What's "reapplicable rationale"?
Ok. Interesting to know that. I made up the term on the spot to denote a rule for solving special pleadings. Not surprisingly given our subject matter, we've had several cases of some term or another getting an emotional reaction from some individual or another. It is unavoidable. On the other hand, it is not infrequently that sort of emotional reaction that connotes a miscommunication in need of clarification. Emotional signs are enormously useful. Ummm... one I recall offhand was "stereotype". It was intended to be used in much the same way as Sowa, et al use "prototype": an exemplar for characterizing a set member. Contrast that to using a rule (intensional assignment), or exhaustive enumeration (extensional assignment). One way to use HumanML categories is to create such prototypical exemplars, which can be called "stereotypes" correctly, but calling them that tends to raise emotional actions. In fact, it will be very easy to abuse HumanML in just such a fashion, just as early movies are loaded with stereotyped characters and continue to be to this day. Our Western polyglot languages are loaded with such terms, BTW. One almost has to use a dead or artificial language to avoid them, and even then, if the language is heavily used across different groups or cultures, emote-laden reactions will reemerge because this reaction, as I've said before, originates not in the term, but in a context of use. Negro used to mean simply, "black", a color, as derived from romance languages. So again, without the contexts (time, space, place, culture, speaker's history and so on), the terms are otherwise just vocalized air. len -----Original Message----- From: Dennis E. Hamilton [mailto:dennis.hamilton@acm.org] Thanks. Sort of the categorical imperative for rationale. That's only the second example I've encountered in IT! (The first is Richard Stallman's justification for Free Software and the General Public License.)
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