Pat, (01)
I would generalize your comment by replacing "ontology engineers"
with X and "philosophers" with Y: (02)
X should think of Y like dogs. They are intelligent
and useful if you feed them and treat them well, but
you have to keep them on a leash, train them thoroughly
to obey your instructions, and not let them form a pack,
or they get out of control and can become dangerous. (03)
In this generalized form, it can be applied to a very wide range
of (X,Y) pairs. (04)
When you do that, an interesting phenomenon appears: (05)
The pairs are symmetric, because the statement is equally
true when X and Y are interchanged. (06)
John (07)
PS: Note that this observation about pairs helps to justify
the subject line of this thread. (08)
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