Wikipedia Trail: From Impostor Syndrome to OWL
Impostor Syndrome:
I saw this on the class Twitter feed and it piqued my interest. From the name, it sounds like it would describe an irrational fear that everyone is an impostor out to get them or something - a Truman Show-esque scenario. That, however, is more descriptive of the Capgras delusion, where someone believes a loved one has been replaced by an impostor. Impostor syndrome refers to one's belief/fear that their effort and accomplishments is a fraud, it was based on luck, and that they're living as an "impostor" - portraying themselves as someone they're not.
I think this has a real, serious detrimental effect, especially on one's self-confidence and in today's society. I always see memes and jokes on the internet about people who are thirty and it just now hitting them. "When did I become an adult?" or "Adulthood is just faking confidence when you don't really know what's happening."
ICD:
ICD stands for International Classification of Diseases, and is used as a healthcare classification system for diseases' symptoms, causes, complaints, etc. Of course, since Impostor Syndrome mentioned above is seemingly as a mental/psychological disorder, I would think it would be listed in the DSM, which I knew about, but it mentioned that it was listed in neither the DSM or the ICD, the latter of which was a foreign abbreviation to me, so I clicked on it. It's like a more extensive version of the DSM, which is limited to only mental disorders.
Description Logic:
The latest version of the ICD, ICD-11, has a more complex structure than previous versions, mainly due the fact that it is now largely digitized. This, of course, requires parameters to be set to be able to efficiently locate a certain term in the classification - this is where description logic comes in. From what I understood from the article, description logic is basically a way to represent knowledge logically, e.g. a coded system that displays information (like those found in bioinformatics systems in hospitals).
Web Ontology Language (OWL):
And lastly, an example of a description logic language is found in OWL, which is used to describe taxonomies and classification networks in regards to web/internet infrastructure. It was developed in an attempt to have a unified, consistent vocabulary when working on development on a global scale. Interestingly enough, as Guus Schreiber put it, "Why not be inconsistent in at least one aspect of a language which is all about consistency?" on why the acronym was OWL and not WOL.
I saw this on the class Twitter feed and it piqued my interest. From the name, it sounds like it would describe an irrational fear that everyone is an impostor out to get them or something - a Truman Show-esque scenario. That, however, is more descriptive of the Capgras delusion, where someone believes a loved one has been replaced by an impostor. Impostor syndrome refers to one's belief/fear that their effort and accomplishments is a fraud, it was based on luck, and that they're living as an "impostor" - portraying themselves as someone they're not.
I think this has a real, serious detrimental effect, especially on one's self-confidence and in today's society. I always see memes and jokes on the internet about people who are thirty and it just now hitting them. "When did I become an adult?" or "Adulthood is just faking confidence when you don't really know what's happening."
ICD:
ICD stands for International Classification of Diseases, and is used as a healthcare classification system for diseases' symptoms, causes, complaints, etc. Of course, since Impostor Syndrome mentioned above is seemingly as a mental/psychological disorder, I would think it would be listed in the DSM, which I knew about, but it mentioned that it was listed in neither the DSM or the ICD, the latter of which was a foreign abbreviation to me, so I clicked on it. It's like a more extensive version of the DSM, which is limited to only mental disorders.
Description Logic:
The latest version of the ICD, ICD-11, has a more complex structure than previous versions, mainly due the fact that it is now largely digitized. This, of course, requires parameters to be set to be able to efficiently locate a certain term in the classification - this is where description logic comes in. From what I understood from the article, description logic is basically a way to represent knowledge logically, e.g. a coded system that displays information (like those found in bioinformatics systems in hospitals).
(the great horned owl, from Wikipedia)
Web Ontology Language (OWL):
And lastly, an example of a description logic language is found in OWL, which is used to describe taxonomies and classification networks in regards to web/internet infrastructure. It was developed in an attempt to have a unified, consistent vocabulary when working on development on a global scale. Interestingly enough, as Guus Schreiber put it, "Why not be inconsistent in at least one aspect of a language which is all about consistency?" on why the acronym was OWL and not WOL.
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