SUO: RE: RE: RE: Re: Re: Abstraction, Analogy, Example, Icon, Metaphor, Mo del, Morphism, Paradigm, Prototype, Simulation

[WBurkett@pdit.com]

Matthew:


> Of course the basis is data models, rather than FOL type stuff, but as I
am
> increasingly realising the gap between the two is narrower than most
people
> think. It is just that very few try to cross it.


I am surprised to hear you make this observation because I would have
thought this would have been self-evident.  Data models, schema languages,
FOL, knowledge representation languages - broadly speaking, then all have
the same purpose: to specify the syntactic form of externalized knowledge
for computational manipulation.  It is ultimately the purpose of the
computational manipulation that governs the design of the language.

Bill


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