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Thanks for your understanding.
Chris -- 2018-04-11
Pat wrote (on the didantic/pedactic thread):
Learned endings like +antic and +actic have a certain interchangeability to them, so it’s possible to imagine that people would be coming up with “didantic†even if “pedantic†didn’t exist.
It brought these to mind:
Syntantic level (data types and formats). •. Schematic level (schematic integration, query languages, and interfaces). Semantic level
the application of latent semactic analysis in visual systems. This paper proposes the use of latent semantic kernels for …
This is probably more of a semactic thing but it comes back as to what is the proper definition of a host route. We hear about the concept …
That’s syntantic level. I believe it should be as independent from … The level 2 of my library provides only syntantic representation of the read options. ...
All kinds of explanations are available for these, though most probably reduce to having both semantics and syntax in mind (and thus semantic and syntactic ), and blending them. Sometimes it is overt and purposeful:
The problem is that semantics and syntax are funnily linked, such that for semactic equivalence “will†has to be included in the conclusion.
*If the human mind were simple enough for us to understand,
we would be too simple-minded to understand it* .
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