Patrick Cassidy wrote: (01)
> Your gut skepticism is not surprising, but I tried hard to find some
> objective criticism of the proposal in your response, and couldn't. (02)
Interesting. I need to write more clearly. Have you looked at the
collection of biological ontologies in Mark Musen's Bioportal? How many
different models of human anatomy did you see? Why is there not one
consistent model? And what is the secret formula for removing that
obstacle? (03)
Ask Steve Hobbs about the effort to develop OWLTime, which is a very
"small" fundamental ontology in your vast undertaking. They had to
choose among three competing models of time, after giving up on usefully
reconciling them. Pat Hayes' paper documents the fundamentally
different axiomatic approaches. According to you, a well-funded
community of great minds will find one model they can all agree on.
What makes you think so? (04)
My gut skepticism is based on published experience. My apologies for
failing to mention more than the biological work and the conflicting
standard upper ontologies. With a bit of effort, I can find a few
others. But my mathematical training tells me one counterexample
disproves a theorem. (05)
What evidence is your unbridled optimism based on? (06)
-Ed (07)
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