On Saturday 20 September 2008, Trent Waddington wrote: > Hehe, indeed. Although I'm sure Powerset has some nice little > relationship links between words, I'm a little skeptical about the > claim to "meaning". I don't mean that in a philosophical "not > grounded" sense.. I'm of the belief that you *could* manually list > all the relationships between words that a person gathers in a > lifetime and that might well be something approaching the meaning of > those words. No. Why I'm skeptical is that I'm pretty sure I could > get a bunch of 5 year old children to tell me everything they can > about the word "truck" and I'd still be writing things down after > weeks of brainstorming. It's a hefty task enumerating common > knowledge - let alone the uncommon kind - and preferably one > shouldn't need to. After all, no-one lists all that meaning about > trucks to 5 year olds.
Perhaps an interesting rule of thumb is that if you have to be listing meanings in a written form, then you're doing something wrong. http://xkcd.com/463/ - Bryan ________________________________________ http://heybryan.org/ Engineers: http://heybryan.org/exp.html irc.freenode.net #hplusroadmap ------------------------------------------- agi Archives: https://www.listbox.com/member/archive/303/=now RSS Feed: https://www.listbox.com/member/archive/rss/303/ Modify Your Subscription: https://www.listbox.com/member/?member_id=8660244&id_secret=114414975-3c8e69 Powered by Listbox: http://www.listbox.com
