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Re: [ontolog-forum] Next steps in using ontologies as standards

To: edbark@xxxxxxxx, "[ontolog-forum]" <ontolog-forum@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
From: Wacek Kusnierczyk <Waclaw.Marcin.Kusnierczyk@xxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Tue, 06 Jan 2009 19:13:42 +0100
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Ed Barkmeyer wrote:
>
> 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.
>
>       (01)

if the theorem is 'any well-founded community of great minds will find
one model they can all agree on', then yes.  if the theorem is 'it is
possible for some well-founded community of great minds to find one
model they can all agree on', then no.    (02)

vQ    (03)


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