Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!uunet!cis.ohio-state.edu!tut.cis.ohio-state.edu!medulla.cis.ohio-state.edu!jj From: jj@medulla.cis.ohio-state.edu (John Josephson) Newsgroups: comp.ai,osu.ai Subject: Re: Unified model for knowledge representation? (Impossible) Message-ID: Date: 5 Jun 91 16:26:16 GMT References: <9106040003.AA12879@lilac.berkeley.edu> <1991Jun04.082625.13317@hplb.hpl.hp.com> Sender: news@tut.cis.ohio-state.edu Followup-To: comp.ai Organization: Ohio State Computer Science Lines: 12 In-reply-to: ewc@hplb.hpl.hp.com's message of 4 Jun 91 08:26:25 GMT Steven Smoliar> THERE IS NO SUCH THING AS OBJECTIVE DESCRIPTION Careful lest next you decide that no description is any better than any other, since they are all subjective, in which case (paraphrasing Bob Dylan) there is no point talking to you, it's just the same as talking to anybody. If, indeed, some descritions are better than others, how can this be? Maybe some are more objective than others. .. jj