27 Sep 2011 08:32
Re: [] Foundations for Ontology
I have for quite a few years been keenly interested in your views and articulations of 'Conceptual Graphics' - and find there is much there that is of great utility, in particular (most recently), your masterful "Foundations for Ontology", which I hope to put to use directly in several ways.
I wonder why (and how) you had not tied up (so far as I know) with the seminal contributions of the late John N. Warfield to 'systems science' - whose system insights led to specific and very usable developments in what I may refer to as 'the graphical view of systems' via his 'Consensus Methodologies', 'Interactive Management', etc: I have found, after Warfield, that a minor extension to our conventional prose, which I call 'prose + structural graphics' has great potential
to enable us effectively understand the systems within which we live and work (and to put that understanding to practical use in every conceivable circumstance). It strikes me that the lack of communication between Warfield's 'view of systems' and Sowa's 'conceptual graphics' has been impoverishing for both sides. More information about Warfield's work is available at http://www.jnwarfield.com and from the 'John N. Warfield Collection' held at the library of George Mason University (http://ead.lib.virginia.edu/vivaead/published/gmu/vifgm00008.tp). (At some point, I had put to Warfield himself my question on why the divide between Warfield's work in systems and Sowa's 'conceptual graphics' - and got no response from him).
With a view to possibly get some kind of dialogue going between the 'John Sowa approach' ('Conceptual
Graphics and developments therefrom) and the 'John N. Warfield approach' ('structural view of systems'), possibly to benefit both sides, I am taking the liberty to attach herewith information about the 'One Page Management System' (OPMS) - an aid to problem solving and decision making founded on Warfield's view of systems. I shall be happy to make more information about OPMS available on request, as well as enable those interested to download my OPMS prototype software, which enable users to identify any Mission of interest and to develop, from their own currently available ideas about it, an effective Action Plan to accomplish the Mission. I claim the OPMS Action Plan is bound to become highly effective because OPMS uses, over iterations, the inherent capability of the human to correct (most of) its errors of perception/understanding, based on inputs received from the world outside.
Please feel free to seek any
clarifications or any further information required.
I look forward to hearing from anyone interested.
Yours truly
GS Chandy
+++++++
Bangalore
Tel.: +91-80-22792760Mobile : +91-9160305002
+++++++
From: John F. Sowa <sowa-pmV1UhJe4grR7s880joybQ@public.gmane.org>
To: cg-ndqbGWLCXyQvU1jxblBdo2D2FQJk+8+b@public.gmane.org
Sent: Friday, September 23, 2011 8:18 AM
Subject: [CG:] Foundations for Ontology
I combined the slides for several recent talks into a single set
of slides that cover a number of related issues about ontology,
semantics, psycholinguistics, neuroscience, Wittgenstein, and
natural language processing:
http://www.jfsowa.com/talks/ontofound.pdf
The title is "Foundations for Ontology" because that's the title
of the most recent talk to which the other slides were added.
Following is the outline. Comments, complaints, questions,
and discussion would be welcome.
John
________________________________________________________________
Foundations for Ontology
1. Problems and challenges
2. Psycholinguistics and neuroscience
3. Semantics of natural languages
4. Wittgenstein’s early and later philosophy
5. Lattice of Theories
6. Processing unrestricted natural language texts
7. Meeting the challenges
---------------------------------------------------------------------
To unsubscribe, e-mail: cg-unsubscribe-ndqbGWLCXyQvU1jxblBdo2D2FQJk+8+b@public.gmane.org
For additional commands, e-mail: cg-help <at> conceptualgraphs.org
To: cg-ndqbGWLCXyQvU1jxblBdo2D2FQJk+8+b@public.gmane.org
Sent: Friday, September 23, 2011 8:18 AM
Subject: [CG:] Foundations for Ontology
I combined the slides for several recent talks into a single set
of slides that cover a number of related issues about ontology,
semantics, psycholinguistics, neuroscience, Wittgenstein, and
natural language processing:
http://www.jfsowa.com/talks/ontofound.pdf
The title is "Foundations for Ontology" because that's the title
of the most recent talk to which the other slides were added.
Following is the outline. Comments, complaints, questions,
and discussion would be welcome.
John
________________________________________________________________
Foundations for Ontology
1. Problems and challenges
2. Psycholinguistics and neuroscience
3. Semantics of natural languages
4. Wittgenstein’s early and later philosophy
5. Lattice of Theories
6. Processing unrestricted natural language texts
7. Meeting the challenges
---------------------------------------------------------------------
To unsubscribe, e-mail: cg-unsubscribe-ndqbGWLCXyQvU1jxblBdo2D2FQJk+8+b@public.gmane.org
For additional commands, e-mail: cg-help <at> conceptualgraphs.org
--------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: cg-unsubscribe@... For additional commands, e-mail: cg-help@...
RSS Feed