Kathy,
More information needed:
(1) who are the "ontology police" and do you know where they can be
contacted? (01)
(2) how have "most people" come to realize that a common foundation
ontology is a "dead end"?
I don't recall seeing studies to that effect. (02)
Pat (03)
> The "ontology police" want to legislate that we build and then
> conform OTEAO (Ontology to End All Ontologies), and if it isn't in
> ONTEO, you are not allowed to say it. Like all caricatures, this one (04)
> has a basis in reality. There are some, unfortunately, who come all
> too close to fitting the caricature. But most people I talk to have
> realized by now that this is a dead end -- it is a recipe for failure (05)
> rather than a prerequisite to success, except in very limited and
> highly constrained problems.
> (06)
Patrick Cassidy
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Cell: 908-565-4053
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