On Sat, Sep 20, 2008 at 4:37 PM, Brad Paulsen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Oh, OK, so I added the stuff in the parentheses. Sue me.
Hehe, indeed. Although I'm sure Powerset has some nice little relationship links between words, I'm a little skeptical about the claim to "meaning". I don't mean that in a philosophical "not grounded" sense.. I'm of the belief that you *could* manually list all the relationships between words that a person gathers in a lifetime and that might well be something approaching the meaning of those words. No. Why I'm skeptical is that I'm pretty sure I could get a bunch of 5 year old children to tell me everything they can about the word "truck" and I'd still be writing things down after weeks of brainstorming. It's a hefty task enumerating common knowledge - let alone the uncommon kind - and preferably one shouldn't need to. After all, no-one lists all that meaning about trucks to 5 year olds. Trent ------------------------------------------- agi Archives: https://www.listbox.com/member/archive/303/=now RSS Feed: https://www.listbox.com/member/archive/rss/303/ Modify Your Subscription: https://www.listbox.com/member/?member_id=8660244&id_secret=114414975-3c8e69 Powered by Listbox: http://www.listbox.com
