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Dear colleagues,
Clearly, man-made constructs such as
organizations and machines are designed in an attempt to eliminate
ambiguity and reduce approximation in order to better function or to operate at
all.
John Sowa was nice enough to share his Knowledge
Soup and Analogy papers with me much earlier in this discussion thread. As
a result of reading these fine papers, I am attaching the following typology and
ontology(?) for discussion. I am an advocate for the explication of
generic Knowledge Representations that not only describe concepts and their
contexts, but also represent knowledge as actionable forms that can be
applied to perform varied generic tasks through appropriate inferencing
mechanisms. I was hoping that this forum would at least attempt
to:
Best regards, Tom Beckman
301-920-0715
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From: "Pat Hayes" <phayes@xxxxxxx>
To: "Christopher Menzel" <cmenzel@xxxxxxxx>
Cc: "[ontolog-forum] " <ontolog-forum@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Wednesday, February 07, 2007 3:04
PM
Subject: Re: [ontolog-forum] Visual
Complexity > > >John, it is your use of "approximation" to >characterize ALL models without exception here >that I object to. Of course, depending on what >it in the world one is trying to represent, a >model *might* necessarily be an approximation, >especially if one is modeling physical phenomena >that are inherently vague or (in effect) >infinitely complex and hence which simply cannot >be represented with 100% accuracy. Consider, >e.g., modeling a stochastic process or fluid >flow by means of probability theory or >differential equations. For the record, I agree, of course. Tarskian models can be platonic, and can be simplified "models" (sense 2) of reality. But they can also be actually made up from real parts of the real world. >However, many physical situations involve, *at a >desired level of granularity*, NO vagueness and >NO intractable complexity at all, as in my >previous example involving faculty and >administrators at Texas A&M. Many ontologies >involve this kind of sharply delineated, >unambiguously representable information. Your >diagram above belies this fact and suggests that >models are always in some way false or >inaccurate. It just ain't so. Quite. Pat -- --------------------------------------------------------------------- IHMC (850)434 8903 or (650)494 3973 home 40 South Alcaniz St. (850)202 4416 office Pensacola (850)202 4440 fax FL 32502 (850)291 0667 cell phayesAT-SIGNihmc.us http://www.ihmc.us/users/phayes _________________________________________________________________ Message Archives: http://ontolog.cim3.net/forum/ontolog-forum/ Subscribe/Config: http://ontolog.cim3.net/mailman/listinfo/ontolog-forum/ Unsubscribe: mailto:ontolog-forum-leave@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Shared Files: http://ontolog.cim3.net/file/ Community Wiki: http://ontolog.cim3.net/wiki/ To Post: mailto:ontolog-forum@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
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