Re: [ontolog-forum] {Disarmed} Reality and Truth

[Bill Andersen <andersen@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Jack,

Hate to pile on, but it's hardly the case that any foundational ontology work (as I believe Pat to be talking about) is receiving a "dominating" level of funding.  Judging by the number of paper submissions to conferences with the letter "SW" in their name, there is robust funding for practically *any* semantic-web related activity.  But don't confuse the latter with the former.

.bill

On Apr 30, 2007, at 03:47 , Pat Hayes wrote:

 When arguments for federation are raised in a

tribe where the mainstream funding and wisdom is dominated by, as you

say, "unapologetic realists", if, indeed, that's what they actually are,

then the arguments seem much closer to tribal or religious in nature.

Oh, bullshit. All this talk of tribes and domination and so on. Look, 

I havnt had a single penny for my ontological work. It is almost 

impossible to obtain funding for ontology work in the USA at present. 

Bill Andersen (andersen@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx)

Chief Scientist

Ontology Works, Inc. (www.ontologyworks.com)

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Baltimore, MD 21224

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