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Smith, Barry wrote:
>> --
>> ^1 He was not the first to use it; wikipedia says, "Although not the
>> first to mention the word "ontology" in computer science (that
>> distinction belongs to John McCarthy), Hayes was one of the first to
>> actually do it.")
>>
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>
> It seems that the first use of the term
> ‘ontology’ in the computer and information
> science literature occurs already in 1967, in
> a work on the foundations of data modeling by S.
> H. Mealy, in a passage which concludes with a
> footnote referring to Quine’s essay “On What
> There Is”. Here Mealy distinguishes three distinct
> realms in the field of data processing:
>
> the real world itself, ideas about it existing in
> the minds of men, and symbols on paper or
> some other storage medium. The latter realms are,
> in some sense, held to be models of
> the former. Thus, we might say that data are
> fragments of a theory of the real world, and
> data processing juggles representations of these
> fragments of theory. No one ever saw or
> pointed at the integer we call “five” – it is
> theoretical – but we have all seen various
> representations of it, ... and we recognize them
> all as denoting the same thing, with perhaps different flavours. …
> The issue is ontology, or the question of what exists. (Mealy 1967. p. 525)
>
> From http://ontology.buffalo.edu/ontology_long.pdf
> The reference is to:
> Mealy, G. H. 1967 “Another Look at Data,”
> Proceedings of the Fall Joint Computer Conference,
> November 14–16, Anaheim, California (AFIPS Conference Proceedings, Volume 31),
> Washington, DC: Thompson Books, London: Academic Press, 525–534.
>
>
>
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