John, (01)
John F. Sowa wrote: (02)
>Paola,
>
>I very strongly agree that abstraction is extremely important
>and that it should be recognized as a valuable technique
>that is applicable to subject matter of any kind.
>
>My only criticism is to note the statement in one of the
>papers you cited: "knowledge representation and abstraction
>are not independent."
>
>People have been using abstraction techniques together
>with knowledge representation since the time of Aristotle.
>To avoid multiplying different fields, I suggest that one
>term be used as the overall umbrella word that covers all
>the others.
>
>
>
I take it your criticism isn't that knowledge representation and
abstraction go hand in hand but that you think we need a social
convention for how to speak of both of them at the same time? (03)
That is, within this community we agree upon a standard usage (cf. the
terms you propose below)? (04)
>I really don't care whether the overall term is called
>"knowledge representation", "conceptual analysis", or
>whatever. But it's important to have an umbrella term
>for all the cases. Then you can have parallel terminology:
>
> knowledge representation -- the task of analyzing the
> concepts in any body of knowledge, defining appropriate
> abstractions, and mapping the results to a logic-based
> notation.
>
> knowledge engineer -- one who does knowledge representation.
>
>If you have too many terms at the top level, you get a
>combinatorial explosion:
>
> knowledge engineer -- one who does KR
>
> abstraction engineer -- one who abstracts
>
> ontological engineer -- one who develops ontologies
>
> conceptual engineer -- one who analyzes concepts
>
>And all the possible combinations:
>
> knowledge & abstraction engineer
>
> ontology & abstraction & conceptual engineer
>
> knowledge & ontology & abstraction engineer
>
> etc.
>
>If the same person is expected to do all these things, we need
>a single term for the subject and the person who works on it.
>
>
>
I don't have an axe to grind on behalf of any of the suggested choices.
Realizing that other communities may choose to honor other usages. (05)
Hope you are having a great day! (06)
Patrick (07)
>John Sowa
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