- From: Sean McGrath <sean.mcgrath@p...>
- To: xml-dev@l...
- Date: Wed, 10 Apr 2013 18:10:40 -0500
>>[Sean McGrath]
Schemas ain't probabilistic.
>[Simon St. Laurent]
>How does "perpetually renegotiable" compare to probabilistic?
>That's another key piece of human conversation I'm bringing to
this story.
Yes. For the probabilistic parts, Sausserre. For the "perpetually
renogotiable" parts, John Searle's concepts of Social Reality and
the difference between what he calls "brute facts" and
"institutional facts":
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Searle#Social_reality
Meaning is not something that is "out there", ready to be bound into
our content. As content moves between producers and consumers - and
especially across institutional boundaries - the meanings that are
superimposed on the markup and the content change.
As time passes, the "semantic drift" can also be witnessed within a
single institution where the "markup of our forefathers" is
reinterpreted by a newer generation.
So it goes.
--
Sean McGrath, CTO, Propylon Inc.
http://www.propylon.com
http://seanmcgrath.blogspot.com
@propylonsean
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