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  • Subject: Re: Shortcomings of Predicate Logic? (was RE: [xml-dev ] RDF Interpretation of XML documents )
  • From: Jon Noring <noring@o...>
  • Date: Tue, 20 Aug 2002 14:57:17 -0500 (CDT)

Tim Bray <tbray@t...> wrote:
>[Attribution stream is muddled up -- someone said:]

>>"I'm attempting to approach knowledge science by first
>>"red-shifting" the operating system.  That shift in
>>systemic approach is first realized by conjectively
>>shifting all data when received immediately into a
>>convolution of the data against a sense-of-conjecture, and
>>in so doing, literally create a scale of meaning along the
>>one dimension of sense as a memory retrieval mechanism via
>>ordinal position along this scale of sense.

>Sounds like a bunch of BS dressed up in $10 words ("conjectively"!?!?). 
>This is the kind of stuff that has given KR a bad name.

To me it sounded like it was generated using the
Postmodernism Generator:

http://www.elsewhere.org/cgi-bin/postmodern/

(Just keep hitting 'refresh' in your browser and read the
resulting documents. They're hilarious. I could probably
take one of these documents and submit it to certain
humanities journals and get it accepted.)

Sorry for the digression from this thread, but I could not
resist.

Jon Noring
Windspun
http://www.windspun.com/


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