Pat, (01)
Pat Hayes wrote: (02)
>>...
>>
>>(d) Philsophical ontologies such as those of Plato and Aristotle can,
>>just as little as Newtonian mechanics, be defined as "a vocabulary
>>together with a specification of the meanings of the terms in the
>>vocabulary; the specification should be definable with a model theory
>>and a machine interpretable syntax."
>>
>>...
>>(f) It is no more odd that the term 'ontology' can take on many
>>different meanings than that more ordinary terms can do so.
>>
>>
>
>True, no doubt; but THIS FORUM is centrally
>concerned with "ontology" in one, rather
>technical, sense: the one quoted in your (d)
>above; which, as Chris M has pointed out, is a
>definition which THIS FORUM has formally adopted
>as its working definition. If this excludes what
>you call "philosophical ontologies", and if you
>are chiefly interested in those, then by all
>means pursue your interest, but please do not try
>to divert THIS FORUM from its stated and main
>goals, or add to the noise level in the email
>discussions. Thank you.
>
>
>
Really? (03)
Hmmm, well, I suppose that would have to be recorded somewhere. (04)
Let's look at: http://ontolog.cim3.net/cgi-bin/wiki.pl?OntologCharter (05)
Which reads: (06)
>
> Ontolog is an open, international, virtual community of practice,
> whose membership will:
>
> * Discuss practical issues and strategies associated with the
> development and application of both formal and informal ontologies.
>
> * Identify ontological engineering approaches that might be applied to
> the UBL effort, as well as to the broader domain of eBusiness
> standardization efforts.
>
> * Strive to advance the field of ontological engineering and semantic
> technologies, and to help move them into main stream applications. (07)
Looks like your definition is missing. (08)
Do you agree? (09)
Hope you are looking forward to a great weekend! (010)
Patrick (011)
PS: You may be reporting your personal definition or one that supports a
particular business model but that is not the same as a definition for
the entire community. (012)
--
Patrick Durusau
Patrick@xxxxxxxxxxx
Chair, V1 - Text Processing: Office and Publishing Systems Interface
Co-Editor, ISO 13250, Topic Maps -- Reference Model
Member, Text Encoding Initiative Board of Directors, 2003-2005 (013)
Topic Maps: Human, not artificial, intelligence at work! (014)
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