Dear John, (01)
Just one point to pick up on. (02)
>
> MW> I agree that there are some abstract concepts. But they are
> > relatively few (tens rather than hundreds in an ontology of
> > tens of thousands).
>
> Yes, but those very few concepts may have an enormous number of
> implications. Otherwise, they wouldn't be in the upper level. (03)
MW: Not what I have seen, I see small number of important things,
but they are inherited by a lot of stuff, and thus support consistency.
> (04)
Regards (05)
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