?url_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Adc&rft.title=Language%2C+logic+and+ontology%3A+uncovering+the%0Astructure+of+commonsense+knowledge&rft.creator=Saba%2C+Walid&rft.subject=Language&rft.subject=Philosophy+of+Language&rft.subject=Computational+Linguistics&rft.subject=Semantics&rft.subject=Artificial+Intelligence&rft.subject=Pragmatics&rft.description=The+purpose+of+this+paper+is+twofold%3A+(i)+we+argue+that+the+structure+of+commonsense+knowledge+must+be+discovered%2C+rather+than+invented%3B+and+(ii)+we+argue+that+natural%0Alanguage%2C+which+is+the+best+known+theory+of+our+(shared)+commonsense+knowledge%2C+should+itself+be+used+as+a+guide+to+discovering+the+structure+of+commonsense+knowledge.+In+addition+to+suggesting+a+systematic+method+to+the+discovery+of+the+structure+of+commonsense+knowledge%2C+the+method+we+propose+seems+to+also+provide+an+explanation+for+a+number+of+phenomena+in+natural+language%2C+such+as+metaphor%2C+intensionality%2C+and+the+semantics+of+nominal+compounds.+Admittedly%2C+our+ultimate+goal+is+quite+ambitious%2C+and+it+is+no+less+than+the+systematic+%E2%80%98discovery%E2%80%99+of+a+well-typed%0Aontology+of+commonsense+knowledge%2C+and+the+subsequent+formulation+of+the+longawaited+goal+of+a+meaning+algebra.&rft.date=2007&rft.type=Other&rft.type=PeerReviewed&rft.format=application%2Fpdf&rft.identifier=http%3A%2F%2Fcogprints.org%2F5535%2F1%2FSaba_2007_ijhcs.pdf&rft.identifier=++Saba%2C+Walid++(2007)+Language%2C+logic+and+ontology%3A+uncovering+the+structure+of+commonsense+knowledge.+++++(In+Press)++&rft.relation=http%3A%2F%2Fcogprints.org%2F5535%2F