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Re: [ontolog-forum] On fruitfulness. Was: Re: Time representation

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From: Duane Nickull <dnickull@xxxxxxxxx>
Date: Fri, 25 Jan 2008 08:03:05 -0800
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On 1/25/08 7:50 AM, "Pat Hayes" <phayes@xxxxxxx> wrote:    (03)

> I submit that for us to engage in a debate about the meaning of
> fruitfulness is not fruitful. Unlike 'context', 'fruitful' is not a
> word that has ever, AFAIK, previously occurred anywhere in this forum
> or in any discussion of ontology engineering. Surely we have enough
> problems without allowing ourselves to be diverted into an endless
> meta-meta-meta-debate about some concept of dubious provenance (its
> use in the philosophy of science appears, from a rapid and
> superficial scan, to be restricted to postmodernists - but if Im
> wrong, I don't want to know about it) and even more dubious utility.
> If 'fruitfulness' starts to appear in lists of requirements then its
> time give up ontology engineering and start writing poetry.
> 
> Pat Hayes    (04)

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