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Re: SUO: *Date 03 May 2002 -- Information Flow




Jon,

For my part, I can foresee no problems with your starting such a thread
on the ONT list. 

I think it could be useful.

Thanks,

Jim 


On Fri, 3 May 2002, Jon Awbrey wrote:

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> IFF Team,
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> Iff it's okay with you guys, I was thinking about starting up an
> online reading of the Barwise & Seligman 'Information Flow' book.
> I would do this as a thread of straight excerpts with no organized
> critique or commentary on my part, on the Ontology Sublist, though
> of course people are encouraged to hash out the material and maybe
> some of you guys would be able to comment on the issues that arise.
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> One issue I can see I already have with this text is its non-standard use
> of the terms "type" and "token".  I will reserve further judgment on that
> score for the duration of the reading and merely register my scruples in
> the form of this Sop to Cerberus:
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> http://suo.ieee.org/ontology/msg04053.html
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> So I'll go the Flow, unless any of you foresee a problem?
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> Jon Awbrey
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> P.S.  I tried to get the website in the book:
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> http://www.phil.indiana.edu/~barwise/ifpage.html
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> but it seemed to be down.  Is there another?
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> J.A.
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