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Re: [ontolog-forum] Model or Reality

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From: "Deborah MacPherson" <debmacp@xxxxxxxxx>
Date: Mon, 13 Aug 2007 09:11:30 -0400
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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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