Re: [OpenCyc-devel] [cyclify-austin] meaning of "denotation"

[David W. <dav...@gm...>]

I understand denotation in contrast to connotation, and that it is a
way of describing the specific meaning of a term
in a high degree of detail.  It looks like the OpenCyc meaning is more
limited.  Perhaps someone else can tell us,
or we can research, to find out possible values for SPEECH-PART, and
what the meaning of the "N" is in the argument list.
I expect N is just there to disambiguate possible choices. but how do
you know which ones are tied to which number ?

David

On Tue, Aug 19, 2008 at 3:13 PM, Richard H. McCullough
<rh...@pi...> wrote:
> Using what I learned in last week's conference call,
> I used this mKR
> English phrase has denotation = ?;
> to represent the meaning of the OpenCyc Web Services
> query for "denotation".
>
> But when I looked up the "comment" for "denotation"
> denotation has comment = ?;
> I found that "denotation" is a quaternary predicate
> (#$denotation WORD SPEECH-PART N TERM)
> where WORD corresponds to my "English phrase",
> and TERM corresponds to my "?".
>
> What is the actual CycL query?
> Are SPEECH-PART and N and TERM all variables?
> Are all possible values of TERM found?
> What context (space,time,microtheory) is used?
>
> Dick McCullough
> Ayn Rand do speak od mKR done;
> mKE do enhance od Real Intelligence done;
> knowledge := man do identify od existent done;
> knowledge haspart proposition list;
> http://mKRmKE.org/
>
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