On Thu, Jun 23, 2011 at 2:03 AM, Gregg Reynolds <d...@mobileink.com> wrote:

>
> Well, you're way ahead of me.  I don't even "get" adjunctions, to tell you
> the truth.  By which I mean that I have no intuition about them; it's not so
> hard to understand the formal definition, but it's another thing altogether
> to grasp the deep significance.
>
>

Exactly. It just looks like we can only "grasp" something if we managed to
match synthetic knowledge with analytic knowledge to state it in more
"philosophical" terms.


> Completely off topic:  a few months ago I had an idea about using category
> theory to provide rigorous semantics for the web (esp. rdf stuff etc.)  I'll
> probably never find time to work out the details, but it's a fun exercise in
> any case; if you want to mess around with applying CT to the real world
> maybe you can coem up with improvements.  See
> http://blog.mobileink.com/2011/03/resource-token-exchange.html.  It's a
> bit of a mess, and some of it I would radically revise, but it might give
> you some ideas, if you're interested in the semantic web thingee.
>
>
I am indeed. And will definitely go through it, thanks.

Regards,
Arnaud
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