Ontology and Formal Semantics – Integration Overdue
- Overdue indeed. I became a semantician because I found the content representations being used in cognitive science were vacuous. Then I became an ontologist because I found the content representations being used in semantics were vacuous.
- Only with plausible, common-sense ontology can we ever do plausible, common-sesne semantics. Only with plausible, common-sense semantics can we ever do plausible, common-sense cognitive science. Only with plausible, common-sense cognitive science can we ever do plausible, common-sense social science. Only with plausible, common-sense social science can we ever design effective, evidence-based policies to put our society back on track.
- I guess that’s why they call it “integration”.
