Ever since Google’s Hummingbird, the term “semantic search” has been thrown around a lot. Yet, the concept is often misunderstood. What is semantic search and how it helps SEO efforts? When people ...

Harold in Clifton Park, N.Y., wrote recently to ask me about the grammar of the sentences “I couldn’t care less” and “I could care less.” Until then, I thought there were just two kinds of people in ...

Semantics = theory of meaning, yet most define semantic search with a focus on intent. “Meaning” is not the same as “intention.” Learn more. Since 2013, Google has been gradually developing into a 100 ...

Classic cybersecurity tools are nearly powerless against semantic attacks. Signature detection, hashing, and code audits all depend on identifying explicit changes in code or data, but meaning-level ...

Snowflake Inc. and a group of partners today launched the Open Semantic Interchange initiative, an open-source effort to standardize how organizations define and share business semantics across data ...

In so-called Kripke-type models, each sentence is assigned either to true or to false at each possible world. In this setting, every possible world has the two-valued Boolean algebra as the set of ...

Each person's perception is individually unique and subjective (Cytowic 2018.) Anesthesia is the phenomenon of no sensation. Synesthesia is the phenomenon of multiple sensations. Human senses include ...

THE TYRANNY OF WORDS—Stuart Chase —Harcourt, Brace ($2.50). In 1914 a 26-year-old Boston accountant named Stuart Chase took his bride on a strange honeymoon. They poked through slums, pretended to be ...

This is a preview. Log in through your library . Journal Information ETC: A Review of General Semantics is a quarterly journal founded in 1943 by the International Society for General Semantics. ISGS ...