In response to Peter Brown's question "Could someone sum up where this thread
is going? " and comment "Or is it just a philosophical stroll in the park " (01)
Pat offered a dog analogy for thinking of philosophers, thus avoiding the half
empty herding cats metaphor, and allowing philosphers to be our (half full)
best friends (dogs). (02)
But I wonder if that does justice to a thread that started, I believe,
with,Waclaw Kusnierczyk writing (At 08:34 AM 6/8/2007) : (03)
The discussion would certainly be made clearer if one could support the (04)
claims with a simple example; e.g., **two ontologies that taken together (05)
are inconsistent, which cannot be reduced to a single consistent (06)
ontology, and which both are necessary to cover the needs for all (07)
involved in modeling the domain.** (08)
We then proceeded to a long discussion on continuant and occurrents and then
into metaphysics. (09)
So what about the initial question? (010)
Gary Berg-Cross (011)
Potomac, MD (012)
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Subject: Re: [ontolog-forum] Two (014)
>Could someone sum up where this thread is going? Or is it just a
>philosophical stroll in the park (or Platonic cave, I'm not sure
>what...)? Frankly, apart from a partially illuminating Philosophy 101,
>has anything actually been said that advances the cause of ontological
>research and practice? If so, someone care to draw some conclusions? (015)
I'm sorry that it should have given you this impression, as this is
exactly what I wanted to avoid. Here's my elevator summary: ontology
engineers should think of philosophers 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. (016)
Pat (017)
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