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Soon, the enterprise of the information age will find itself immobilized if it does not have the ability to tap the information resources within and without its boundaries.

— John F. Sowa

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To distinguish the meaningful graphs that represent real or possible situations in the external world, certain graphs are declared to be canonical.

We define a semantic network as "the collection of all the relationships that concepts have to other concepts, to percepts, to procedures, and to motor mechanisms" of the knowledge".

p. 76 as cited in: Jacques Demongeot (1988)

Taxonomy is a Greek word which means an arrangement based on any kind of law or principle.

Sowa (1992)

An analysis of the concept of mind is an important philosophical issue, but the analysis cannot be reduced to programming of physiological terms... [It remarks the importance of the question] the way people think and the way computers can simulate thinking.

A conceptual graph is a finite connected bipartite graph which consists of concepts and conceptual relations. Every conceptual relation has one or more arcs, each of which is linked to a concept. We define a multilevel conceptual graph to be a conceptual graph in which some of the concepts and conceptual relations arc sensitive.

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