s, I would be tempted to agree, even before I know for sure
whether you use &quot;pragmatic&quot; and &quot;semantic&quot; with the same sense
that I have in mind.

JC: In either case, the model above seems to me not to fall afoul
    of the sort of thing Howard raised in his recent post, but it
    doesn't seem to me to accommodate them either, except perhaps
    implicitly via what you said about ontologies and theories,
    which was phrased in a way I have difficulty understanding.

I am still trying to