Re: [ontolog-forum] electric sheep

["Obrst, Leo J." <lobrst@xxxxxxxxx>]

You are at the right place, Stavros. We are just a pretty tolerant group, tolerating many spouters. Welcome aboard. By the way, we tend to smack around the idiots, but are typically open to insight from everyone.

 

Thanks,

Leo

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From: ontolog-forum-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:ontolog-forum-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Stavros Macrakis
Sent: Friday, November 09, 2007 5:43 PM
To: [ontolog-forum]
Subject: Re: [ontolog-forum] electric sheep

On Nov 9, 2007 3:36 PM, Azamat <abdoul@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

...the real nature of ontology. Namely, that it studies the being of

everything which exists and changes; that it is the general account

of reality, ...; that it increases the world knowledge, unfolds new

basic truths, develops new sciences and technology

I joined this mailing list recently, thinking that it was about "ontology" in the (arguably trivializing and abusive) computer science sense, that is, building rich, useful, machine-processable descriptions of concepts and relationships and using them in practical ways.  Of course, these descriptions should be informed as much as possible by insights from philosophy, psychology, and confectionery, but I'd rather not wait until these fields have reached their final conclusions (42?).

If I have misunderstood, and in fact this mailing list is devoted to a foundationalist "general account of reality", then I am in the wrong place.  If on the other hand it is in fact devoted to the more mundane engineering and scientific tasks I sketch above, perhaps the more ambitious discussions could find another home?

        -s

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