SUO: Re: Topic :> Definition Of Definition
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Topic :> Definition 16. <JA, 04 Dec 2003, 08>
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In: Topic :> Definition. http://suo.ieee.org/email/thrd3.html#11636
Re: Topic :> Definition 15. http://suo.ieee.org/email/msg11944.html
Matthew,
I apologize for saying that you dodged the question that I'd asked.
The elventh time that I read the paragraph in question, maybe it was
because I had reached the stage of parceling it out into its component
sentences, I suddenly recognized that the third sentence did indeed give
the answer of the "real" thinker, that is, not a "nominal" thinker, that
I could hardly reconcile myself to thinking that you could be other than.
I wish I could make the excuse that something in the first two sentences
so benighted me that I lost the focus required to accommodate the third,
but that would be a tawdry if fond excuse indeed. So let me review the
sentences in question in the following several array:
MW: 1. There is utility in a community agreeing to use
particular things as signs in a consistent way.
MW: 2. These we may call signs with definitions.
MW: 3. I would further expect that those that represented
classes would have definitions that identified the
necessary (or perhaps desired) properties of members.
As the card-carrying realist that the terms of your third sentence
now qualify you to be, now fully vetted by the customs inspectors
of my petty intellectual principality, let us both now join in
turning back and reflecting on the residual confusions, I may
now suspect but the beam in my own eyes, of the first two.
But later, ever later ...
Jon Awbrey
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http://www.cs.bsu.edu/homepages/mighty/history.html
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