[topicmaps-comment] Notions have existence .....

[Enrico Silterra <catluver67@yahoo.com>]

"Notions have existence regardless of whether any
information conveys them."


Reading Steve, and Michel's presentation from
the Semantic Web Workshop,
I am worried that we are venturing into some sort
of Platonic mode of thought here -- My HO is that the
notion that  notions such as "unicorns" exist whether
or not anyone thinks them is wrong
What does "information conveys" mean?
What are the logical operations that can be performed
on topic maps?  Is the topic map notation equivalent
to the propositional calculus? If it isn't, how can we
use tm's to reason with? If it is, what does it add?

Thanks.
Rick "Zippy" Silterra




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