13th International Conference on Conceptual Structures Conceptual Structures: Common Semantics for S

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13th International Conference on Conceptual
StructuresConceptual Structures Common
Semantics for Sharing KnowledgePragmatic
Support forCollaborative Inquiry

• July 17, 1000-1300
• 1000-1130 Tutorialby G. Richmond, M. Keeler,
  A. de Moor, H. Pfeiffer
• 1130-1145 Coffee Break
• 1145-1300 Workshop - Collaboration Game

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Elements of the workshop
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HA
GRASS
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The Evolving WWW
Syntactic Web
Pragmatic Web
Semantic Web
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Contexts and Pragmatic Patterns
Individual context -lt individual pragmatic
pattern
Pragmatic context -lt unity of individual
common pragmatic patterns
Common context -lt common pragmatic pattern
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Normative Status of Pragmatic Patterns
Permitted
Required
Forbidden
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1ns
3ns
2ns
Three Peircean categories
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unit (in itself)
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medium (bringing into relation)
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correlate (to another)
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Three Universes of Experience
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Universal Categories
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possibility
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necessity
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actuality
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the beginning...fresh, original, spontaneous,
free.
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medium, becoming, developing,bringing about.
3
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determined, terminated, ended, correlative,
object, necessitated, reaction.
C.S. Peirce Trichotomic in EP I280
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Existential Categories
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feeling
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thought
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action-reaction
possibility
necessity
actuality
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Logical Modalities
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may be (VAGUE, ?)
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will necessarily be if(GENERAL, ?)
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actually is (SPECIFIC, ??)
feeling
possibility
thought
necessity
action-reaction
actuality
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Theoretical Grammar
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Classification of the Sciences
mathematics sciences of discovery gt
philosophy (as cenoscopic) sciences gt sciences
of review special sciences practical sciences
phenomenology (as trichotomic) gt
metaphysics normative sciences esthetics theoreti
cal grammar gt logic (as semeiotic) gt
rhetoric (methodeutic) ethics critic
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Vectors

• ?K Vector Analysis

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Inquiry
processvector
Abduction (hypothesis formation)
Induction (actual experiment)
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Evolution
processvector
Chance sporting
Achieved structural modification
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Inquiry
processvector
Abduction (hypothesis formation)
Induction (actual experiment)
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HypothesisFormation
representation vector
posits a hypothesis purporting to explain
A scientific mind
some real-world phenomenon.
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The Creationof Hamlet
representation vector
the complex symbol which isthe play Hamlet
Shakespeare, out of his rich lifeand
imagination, creates
as if it were a real world of someexperience.
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Collaboratory Tool Selection
A suit of tools is abduced as optimal for some
purpose
process vector
an actual collaboratorial experiment is devised
and tested.