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Subject: Contradicting a PSI
Greetings! The phrase "contradicting a PSI" was used several times today in our conference call and I wanted to make sure I was understanding it (as intended). From what I gathered from the discussion, to "contradict" a PSI means to use it for a subject(mySubject) that is different (however great or small the difference) from the PSI subject? When I hear "contradict," I take it in the sense of denial, "the earth is flat," which I would "contradict" in the sense of denying the truth of that statement. What I take to be the meaning of "contradict a PSI" is that I have identified a subject using that PSI, that is in fact not the subject (however close or far apart) of the PSI. I suppose that is contradiction if you say it that way but it is not what automatically comes to mind. More a case of mis-identification if I have one subject and choose a PSI that represents another subject to represent the subject I am talking about? Not a big issue but one where I think we need to be careful in explaining how we are using the term "contradiction." Hope everyone is having a great day! Patrick -- Patrick Durusau Director of Research and Development Society of Biblical Literature Patrick.Durusau@sbl-site.org Chair, V1 - Text Processing: Office and Publishing Systems Interface Co-Editor, ISO 13250, Topic Maps -- Reference Model Topic Maps: Human, not artificial, intelligence at work!
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