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World Semantics vs. Process Semantics
- There are two different types of semantics.
- World Semantics: What data refers to in the world.
- Process Semantics: A precise formal model of the data.
- "11" and numbers map easily to set theory (process semantics), but "Stefan Decker" is not
just a member of a set, even if we call that set "Person."
- Mistaking "process semantics" for "world semantics" is "mistaking the map for the territory."
- The world always outstrips any formal model of it.
- A formal model provides at best partial information about the world semantics.