[comp.ai.digest] Smoliar's metaphor

sas@BBN.COM (06/26/88)

Date: Wed, 22 Jun 88 13:46 EDT
From: sas@BBN.COM
To: AIList@ai.ai.mit.edu
In-reply-to: smoliar@vaxa.isi.edu (Stephen Smoliar)
Subject: Smoliar's metaphor


In Volume 7, Issue 41, Stephen Smoliar presents an interesting
metaphor, relating the components of a knowledge representation system
to the parts of speech.  In particular he described ACTIONS as verbs
and TYPES as nouns.  INSTANCES were merely described as "entities".  I
was wondering if it might work better to describe TYPES as
"adjectives" and INSTANCES as "nouns"?  If nothing else, it kind of
makes one think.

				Just wondering,
					Seth