ONT Re: [topicmapmail] Re: Inquiry Into Inquiry
Are all properties intrinsically relational?
--- Jon Awbrey <jawbrey@oakland.edu> wrote:
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> Sam Hunting wrote (SH):
> Jon Awbrey wrote (JA):
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> JA: Here is one quick link on the "Definition Of A Sign":
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> http://suo.ieee.org/ontology/msg02034.html
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> SH: A question from the peanut gallery:
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> What is a relational property?
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> Thanks! (No need for one of your wonderful punning extended
> essays -- KISS.)
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> SH, quoting LW:
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> | "To imagine a language is to imagine a form of life."
> | Ludwig Wittgenstein, Philosophical Investigations
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> A relational property is just a property that something has
> by virtue of being in a relation at the moment in question.
> In effect, this is really just another way of saying that
> something is related to something in the specified way.
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> For example, "mi" is a name I call myself, that is to say,
> a sign that reminds me of me, at the moment when somebody
> while singing a song has led me to interpret "mi" as "me".
> In this moment is actualized the sign relational 3-tuple
> <me, "mi", "me"> of the form <object, sign, interpretant>.
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> Jon Awbrey
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> Incidental Musement:
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> http://www.stratfordfestival.ca/2001/playbill/soundofmusic.html
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