Re: [ontolog-forum] the god of boundary

[Bob Smith <bob@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

		Hi,

Two quick questions:

Is this all about the old topic called "Semantic Distance" we played with in the late 1960's and early 1970's, but now with a better GIS-OGC sense of "Distance"?

Do we now need to sacrifice a Tomato to the Boundary God of Semantic Distances??

Cheers,

Bob

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From: "Michelle Raymond" <michellearaymond@xxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Monday, February 05, 2007 10:15 AM
To: "[ontolog-forum]" <ontolog-forum@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Subject: Re: [ontolog-forum] the god of boundary

Arg. The God's were capricious and terminated my typing early.

What I was to write is this:
So, here on Earth, we play at being Gods, which is terminal.

hmmm, yes context is everything (well nearly-everything, we need the
TERM itself.)

- Michelle Raymond


On 2/5/07, Michelle Raymond

wrote:
> On 2/5/07, Deborah MacPherson wrote:
> > The geography of terminology
> >
> > Deborah MacPherson
> >
> > > So, it really is all about Geography! :-)
> > >
> > > Geography, the mother of all sciences . . .
> > >
> > > Carl Reed
> > > A geographer.
> > > From:
> > > Subject: [ontolog-forum] the god of boundary
> > >
> > > > with reference to earlier posts arguing the appropriate choice of term for
> > > > 'ontology is a set of terms...'
> > > > please note that
> > > >
> > > > TERM
> > > > ," related to termen "boundary, end" (see terminus).
> > > >
> > > > In ancient Rome, Terminus was the name of the deity who presided over
> > > > boundaries and landmarks, focus of the important Roman festival of
> > > > Terminalia (held Feb. 23, the end of the old Roman year)
> > > >
> > > > Paola Di Maio
> > > > (Q.e.D)

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