On May 9, 2008, at 4:58 PM, John F. Sowa wrote:
> A formal ontology is a prerequisite for a formal language
> of any kind. Many controlled NLs are just versions of logic
> that use the vocabulary and syntax of some natural language.  (01) 
This I do not understand, unless perhaps you are building more into 
the notion of a formal language than I do. What formal ontology is a 
prerequisite of, say, the formal language whose lexicon is {a,b} and 
whose words are {a^{n}b^{n} : n > 0}?  (02)
-chris  (03)
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