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Meta-Regimenting Extensionalism

2 June 20264D SIG Workshop, 21st of May 2026, Web Science Institute, online

Abstract

A presentation to raise awareness of what extensionalism is <br> <ul> <li>to raise awareness of the connection with formality and computability</li> <li>to make clear extensionalism has a role as an engineering tool for examining critical data infrastructure</li> <li>where it enables us to uncover the implicit underpinnings of critical data infrastructure on the way, to make clear: <ul> <li>the concern that <ul> <li>so-called ‘theories of meaning’ fail to provide good enough identity criteria and</li> <li>‘regimentation’ is a way to relieve this concern</li> </ul> </li> </ul> </li> <li>a way to construct the underlying extensional semantics</li> <li>to raise awareness of how meta-regimentation drives the evolution of extensionalism – <ul> <li>increasing its scope</li> <li>by providing an overview of the meta-regimentation journey</li> </ul> </li> </ul>

Paper Notes

A presentation to raise awareness of what extensionalism is

  • to raise awareness of the connection with formality and computability
  • to make clear extensionalism has a role as an engineering tool for examining critical data infrastructure
  • where it enables us to uncover the implicit underpinnings of critical data infrastructure on the way, to make clear:
    • the concern that
      • so-called ‘theories of meaning’ fail to provide good enough identity criteria and
      • ‘regimentation’ is a way to relieve this concern
  • a way to construct the underlying extensional semantics
  • to raise awareness of how meta-regimentation drives the evolution of extensionalism –
    • increasing its scope
    • by providing an overview of the meta-regimentation journey

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