I apologize for coming across too harshly.
Deborah MacPherson
On 8/12/07, John F. Sowa <sowa@xxxxxxxxxxx
> wrote:Deborah,
The point I was making is that you get inconsistent theories
even in science and engineering.
> Science and ontology design are in the awkward position of
> practicing due diligence and trying ones best while discordant
> beliefs are swirling all around, colliding head on, wrecking
> everything now and then.
You don't have to get to politics and religion. Just look at
the multiple versions of any large computer program. Every
time you get a new patch or update to any operating system,
incompatibilities (i.e., inconsistencies) arise.
Even in physics, the general equations are so hard to solve
that *every* application makes simplifying assumptions that
are specialized for that application -- and they are
inconsistent with the assumptions that are made for other
kinds of applications.
John
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