The phenomenon of Inverse Linking has proven challenging for theories of the syntax-semantics interface; a noun phrase within another behaves with respect to binding as though it were structurally independent. In this paper I show that, even within an LF-movement style approach to the syntax-semantics interface, we can derive all and only the appropriate meanings for such constructions using no...

A praxeology is outlined for stakeholder responsibility and response-ability in natural resource management. It is argued that capacity building in systems practice, involving systemic inquiry and the design of learning systems, is central to this praxeology. The research reported is a response to a perceived need by natural resource managers and researchers to think about their thinking and to...

In Kaplan and Winther’s recent article (Biol Theory. doi:10.1007/s13752-012-0048-0, 2012) they argue for three bold theses: first, that ‘‘it is illegitimate to read any ontology about ‘race’ off of biological theory or data’’; second, that ‘‘using biological theory to ground race is a pernicious reification’’; and, third, that ‘‘race is fundamentally a social rather than a biological category.’...

Reification and anonymous resources are two of the more interesting features of RDF — an emerging standard for representing semantic information on the Web. Ironically, when RDF was standardized by W3C over three years ago [18], it came without a semantics. There is now growing understanding that a Semantic Web language without a semantics is an oxymoron, and a number of efforts are directed to...

Computational reflection is gaining interest in practical applications as witnessed by the use of reflection in the JAVA programming environment and recent work on reflective middleware. Reflective systems offer many different reflection programming interfaces, the so-called MetaObject Protocols (MOPs). Their design is subject to a number of constraints relating to, among others, expressive pow...

In this report we propose an alternate account of mathematical reification as compared to Sfard’s (1991) description, which is characterized as an “instantaneous quantum leap”, a mental process, and a static structure. Our perspective is based on two in-service teachers’ exploration of the function f (z) = e , using Geometer’s Sketchpad. Using microethnographic analysis techniques we found that...

In this paper, we compare various options for reifying RDF triples. We are motivated by the goal of representing Wikidata as RDF, which would allow legacy Semantic Web languages, techniques and tools – for example, SPARQL engines – to be used for Wikidata. However, Wikidata annotates statements with qualifiers and references, which require some notion of reification to model in RDF. We thus inv...