Semantic Quotes
32 quotes by 26 authors
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The Semantic Web isn't inherently complex. The Semantic Web language, at its heart, is very, very simple. It's just about the relationships between things.
— Tim Berners-Lee
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Hence, a generative grammar must be a system of rules that can iterate to generate an indefinitely large number of structures. This system of rules…
— Noam Chomsky
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At root, vulgar just means popular on a mass scale. It is the semantic opposite of pretentious or snobby. It is humility with a comb-over.…
— David Foster Wallace
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It becomes 'one's own' only when the speaker populates it with his own intentions, his own accent, when he appropriates the word, adapting it to…
— Mikhail Bakhtin
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The purpose of abstraction is not to be vague, but to create a new semantic level in which one can be absolutely precise.
— Edsger Dijkstra
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As words are not the things we speak about, and structure is the only link between them, structure becomes the only content of knowledge. If…
— Alfred Korzybski
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If we, who live outside asylums, act as if we lived in a fictitious world- that is to say, if we are consistent with our…
— Alfred Korzybski
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Man's achievements rest upon the use of symbols.... we must consider ourselves as a symbolic, semantic class of life, and those who rule the symbols,…
— Alfred Korzybski
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Terrorism is a word with little content - it is a label for brutalities committed by ‘the enemy’, and from which one’s own acts of…
— David Livingstone
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Density, complexity, and historical-semantic value that is so strong as to make politics possible... Gramsci's insight is to have recognised that subordination, fracturing, diffusion, reproducing,…
— Edward Said
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Human society as a whole is a vast brainwashing machine whose semantic rules and sex roles create a social robot.
— Robert Anton Wilson
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Modernist discourse [...] incorporates semantic devices - such as the labeling of theism as 'religion' and naturalism as 'science' - that work to prevent a…
— Phillip E. Johnson
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The very term ['mental disease'] is nonsensical, a semantic mistake. The two words cannot go together except metaphorically; you can no more have a mental…
— E. Fuller Torrey
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There came a time in every prolonged effort when he had a moment of near panic, or 'terror in a lonely place', the original semantic…
— Don DeLillo
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In Paul Friedrich's book Proto-Indo-European Trees he identifies the "semantic primitives" of the Indo-European tribe of languages through a group of words that have not…
— Gary Snyder
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Every image is in some way a “portrait,†not in the way that it would reproduce the traits of a person, but in that it…
— Sally Mann
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One bit of advice: it is important to view knowledge as sort of a semantic tree - make sure you understand the fundamental principles, ie…
— Elon Musk
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The Semantic Web is not a separate Web but an extension of the current one, in which information is given well-defined meaning, better enabling computers…
— Tim Berners-Lee
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The literati in their cellarsPerform semantic tarantellas.I wish I did it half as well as them.
— Al Stewart
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Writers that pretend to be in the throes of some kind of genius-demon, some kind of possessing spirit that refuses to let them engage with…
— Matt Fraction
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