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dc.contributor.authorLegg, Catherine
dc.date.accessioned2013-03-21T21:47:36Z
dc.date.available2013-03-21T21:47:36Z
dc.date.copyright2013-01-22
dc.date.issued2013
dc.identifier.citationLegg, C. (2013). Peirce, meaning, and the Semantic Web. Semiotica, 193, 119-143.en_NZ
dc.identifier.issn0037-1998
dc.identifier.urihttps://hdl.handle.net/10289/7386
dc.description.abstractThis paper seeks an explanation for the challenges faced by Semantic Web developers in achieving their vision, compared to the staggering near-instantaneous success of the World Wide Web. To this end it contrasts two broad philosophical understandings of meaning and argues that the choice between them carries real consequences for how developers attempt to engineer the Semantic Web. The first is Rene Descartes' "private," static account of meaning (arguably dominant for the last four-hundred years in Western thought), which understands the meanings of signs as whatever their producers intend them to mean. The second is Charles Peirce's still relatively unknown " public," evolutionary account of meaning, according to which the meaning of signs just is the way they are interpreted and used to produce further signs. It is argued that only the latter approach can avoid the unmanageable attempts to "preprocess" interpretation of signs on the Web that have dogged the project in its many stages, and thereby do justice to the scale, rapid changeability, and exciting possibilities of online information today.en_NZ
dc.language.isoen
dc.publisherWalter de Gruyteren_NZ
dc.relation.ispartofSemiotica
dc.subjectpragmatismen_NZ
dc.subjectSemantic Weben_NZ
dc.subjectPeirceen_NZ
dc.subjectmeaningen_NZ
dc.subjectinterpretanten_NZ
dc.titlePeirce, meaning, and the Semantic Weben_NZ
dc.typeJournal Articleen_NZ
dc.identifier.doi10.1515/sem-2013-0007en_NZ
dc.relation.isPartOfSemioticaen_NZ
pubs.begin-page119en_NZ
pubs.elements-id38338
pubs.end-page143en_NZ
pubs.issue193en_NZ
pubs.volume2013en_NZ


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