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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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