>Barry and Pat,
>
>> >>> I just choose (like driving on the left). I choose to distinguish
>>>>>between continuants and occurrents.
>>>>
>>>>Fine. But then the question arises as to whether your ontological
>>>>framework, which requires this distinction, is of more use than a
>>>>similar one which does not.
>>>
>>>I think we need to test this empirically. So far we are winning --
>> >the GO is, by several measures,the world's most successful ontology.
>>
>>Ah, that is more like it. I agree you are winning. And it is
>>refreshing to see philosophical arguments replaced by straightforward
>>appeals to power and funding. As I have no funds to compete with, you
>>will no doubt go on winning :-)
>
>I hope you boys have fun slugging it out on the playground. :-) (01)
Yeh, Im sorry about the slightly bilious tone there. I suffer from
philosophy reflux syndrome. (02)
> In
>the meantime, people are going to build ontologies, and they are
>going to look to us for leadership on how to do it. Barry's legions
>are busy building them with continuants and occurants. Pat doesn't
>have any funding, he says. So he can't amass legions who will build
>ontologies with spatiotemporal processes. Alas. But no doubt
>someone will read his posts, and with dreams of matching Barry's
>glory, start amassing armies to build them with spatiotemporal
>processes. Then, some day, somebody is going to have an urgently
>important problem that requires these ontologies to interoperate. (03)
I don't think that will be much of a problem, most of the time.
Translating from c/o to spatiotemporal is really not much more than
judicious deletion. Translating in the other direction will require
some pattern-recognition to 'see' c- and o-type formulations, and
maybe in some cases splitting a concept into a continuant and its
lifetime (which are identified in spatiotemporal). (04)
I would say, in passing, that my views on this issue have been
informed in large part by trying to create useful interoperation
between a number of different ontologies. (05)
Pat
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