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Re: [ontolog-forum] A "common basis"

To: rick@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx, "[ontolog-forum] " <ontolog-forum@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
From: Bill Andersen <andersen@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Wed, 2 May 2007 22:48:41 -0400
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On May 2, 2007, at 22:33 , richard murphy wrote:    (01)

> Hi K & Bill:
>
> actually, there are some folks who believe information provenance is a
> source of trust, consider the case where the reasoning steps of a
> theorem prover show how the consequent is derived from the antecedent,
> seems that would allow the kids to make their own judgments ...    (02)

I'm one of those folks – trust (in this sense) is dependent on  
provenance.  But what it gives you is a tool to identify what is  
bad.  It does not give you a tool to identify what is good, except in  
a private sense.  What is good, for example for a large enterprise  
with limited resources to spend getting their information in order,  
may very well be another matter.  Thus trust (again in this sense) is  
not a sufficient condition for ontology quality.    (03)

        .bill    (04)



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