It's a category error to apply the notion of orthogonality to
ontologies since ontologies are not vectors. (01)
More informally speaking, there may be some sort of linguistic-based
heuristic notion you're after but you'd have to say what that might be
and what you want to do with it. (02)
Bill Andersen
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On Mar 4, 2008, at 5:31 AM, "Alexander Garcia Castro" <alexgarciac@xxxxxxxxx
> wrote: (04)
> Hopefully this is not so out of focus. I am looking for a definition
> for orthogonality. When are ontologies orthogonal? Any body who can
> recommend me some good papers about orthogonal ontologies? Is there
> a measure for orthogonality?
>
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