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Re: [ontolog-forum] orthogonal

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From: Bill Andersen <andersen@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Tue, 4 Mar 2008 08:42:55 -0500
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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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