From: "Roger L. Costello" <costello@[...].org> 

>  Consider this statement:
>  
>    "The length of the Yangtze River is 6300 kilometers."
>  
>  What is a "kilometer"?

A term used in that sentence, probably part of an intended meaning to the
utterer expressed in some implicit and explicit context, probably part of
a received meaning to the recipient in some implicit and explicit
context, perhaps where the contexts were provided by yet other people?

But I think Roger's question is really "What programming paradigm
matches simple natural language assertions: object-oriented, functional,
frame-based (slots), or symbolic?"    Lol.

Cheers
Rick Jelliffe


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