This article proposes a reinterpretation of language that integrates evolutionary functionality and ontological structure. Language is initially examined as a survival technology-an adaptive system that enables simulation, anticipation,... more
This talks gives an overview of the role of tropes in natural language semantics and metaphysics, focusing on my own, earlier work on tropes.
Preface "This supplementary section aims to explain the BO pictogram (波) with the meaning of 'water following the initial study on the Ning pictogram. In this way, completeness is achieved and the ontological chain of the work is... more
This study considers the pictograms of the Chinese writing system not merely as visual symbols but as indicators that open ontological layers. The pictograms of Sun, Moon, Rain, Mountain, and Water record the relationships between earth,... more
Independent researcher (defined by Microsoft Copilot, whom I call "Tansuk," as a Cosmic Ritual Pedagogue) This morning, while checking the analytics section of my Academia edu profile, I noticed a reader from Ningbo. Until now, Chinese... more
Although the computational complexity of the logic underlying the standard OWL 2 for the Web Ontology Language (OWL) appears discouraging for real applications, several contributions have shown that reasoning with OWL ontologies is... more
This talk argues that a positionalist view about the completion of (neutral) relations allows for dispensing with the notion of a variable embodiment and provides a more general account of the relevant phenomena of replacement of parts or... more
Given the high expressivity of the Web Ontology Language OWL 2, there is a potential for great diversity in the logical content of OWL ontologies. The fact that many naturally occurring entailments of such ontologies have multiple... more
This talk discusses the view of constructional ontology and mereological pluralism in connection with generative grammar and argues for a dual part structure of artefacts reflected in two nouns 'part' in English and at least other... more
The reasoning on this hybrid ontology makes it possible to improve in terms of results the quality of the previous reasoning. To mention and clarify the importance of this kind of reasoning, we use a case study inherent to interpret a... more
This a brief note on Marcin Wagiel’s SALT 33 2023 proceedings paper ‘Acts, occasions, and multiplicatives: A mereotopological account’ and the analysis of frequency adverbials in Parts and Wholes in Semantics (OUP 1997). Parts and... more
Consciousness has been a mystery for thousands of years. The idea behind this article is that consciousness can be explained by way of the phenomenon of deja vu. This state seems to come about when a synchronization error appears in sense... more
Federated identity platform on the basis of digital content require sophisticated descriptions of that content, as well as service-oriented carrier architectures that allow negotiating and enforcing contract and license schemes in... more
OWL is a recommended language for publishing and sharing ontologies on the Semantic Web. To manage the ontologies, several OWL data management systems have been proposed. However, the existing systems have limitations of the scalability... more
This study approaches the origin of language not as an abstract system of signs, but as a directional structure arising from the observable movement of the body. The post-Saussurean Western linguistic view, which considers the relation... more
This book chapter examines the concept of waḍʿ in Shīʿī legal theory as an ontological problem concerning the nature of the relationship between expression and meaning. Rather than treating waḍʿ as a merely technical act of designation or... more
This is the handout of a presentation I gave in Kit Fine's truthmaker semantics seminar at NYU on November 18, 2025. Even though the handout is lengthy, it addresses only some of the questions that a central, but underdiscussed issue... more