Brian (Bo) Newman wrote: (01)
> Jayne,
>
> While perhaps not semantically complete, I have found it quite useful
> (in presentations to those outside of the ontological communities) by
> anchoring such discussions with; "A class hierarchy may also be called
> a taxonomy" [1] -- "taxonomies are methods for describing
> classification relationships" [2]; explaining that ontologies (formal
> or otherwise) provide additional semantic elements that allow them to
> covey more meaning that just what is provided by a taxonomy. (02)
DN - would it be fair to extend this to also state that the ontology is
also about the relationships between the elements of a taxonomy in
addition to the hierarchal nature of their associations? An ontology is
about more that just the elements of a taxonomy and their individual
semantics - it is about the N to N relationships that exist between
those elements?? Could one infer that Taxonomies are always scoped to
only represent hierarchal relationships between elements? I see a lot
of people who seem to infer this but have never seen it written in black
and white. (03)
Duane
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