At 9:56 AM +0100 5/1/08, Barker, Sean (UK) wrote:
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>So, ontology is just data modelling with AI gubbins? So why bother?
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>If I might put a different argument, based on Aristotle (or, more
>exactly, based on my understanding of a modern understanding of
>Thomas Aquinas on Aristotle). (01)
OK, I stopped reading at this point. Sorry, but I'm just not
interested in what Aquinas and Aristotle had to say. They weren't
doing ontology engineering, they knew nothing whatever about
'ontology' in the sense used in this forum, and they knew nothing
about modern logic. So their views are about as relevant to this
discussion as those of Johan Sebastian Bach. And in any case, their
ideas on just about anything that matters were (though of great
historical importance) profoundly wrong. (02)
Pat (03)
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