>John wrote:
>''Ontology is something that one could study in science (discovering what
>exists) or in philosophy
>characterizing what exists) or in both.''
>
>John,
>Ontology is the core of philosophy (Logics, Epistemology, Semantics, etc.)
>and the foundation of all sciences, physical, psychological, social, and
>engineering, thus it sets the most basic assumptions for the world
>knowledge, to be truly represented by the advanced knowledge and semantic
>technology. Other views only depricate its high status of Science of
>sciences.
>
>Azamat (01)
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>From: "John F. Sowa" <sowa@xxxxxxxxxxx>
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>Sent: Wednesday, November 07, 2007 10:51 PM
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>> Azamat,
>>
>> Ingvar and I were talking about the difference between science
>> and philosophy. Ontology is something that one could study
>> in science (discovering what exists) or in philosophy
>> characterizing what exists) or in both.
>>
>> Those more detailed comments you suggested are questionable.
>> Trying to assign one or another to one field or the other is
>> almost impossible, since people working in many different fields
>> have studied, analyzed, or contributed to all of those aspects.
>> I think it's a waste of time even to try.
>>
>> In any case, I do not believe that a sharp distinction between
>> science and philosophy is possible or desirable. My recommendation
>> (which many philosophers, such as Peter Hacker, have discussed in
>> more detail) is to use the criterion of the proportion of attention
>> to conceptual analysis to characterize some efforts as more
>> philosophical vs. more scientific. But there have been philosophers
>> who made good contributions to science and scientists who have made
>> good contributions to philosophy.
>>
>> I think it would be pointless and counterproductive to try to
>> pigeon-hole the contributions by making too many fine distinctions.
>>
>> John
>>
>>
>>
>>
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