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

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From: Ali Hashemi <ali.hashemi@xxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Mon, 26 Jan 2009 14:54:56 -0500
Message-id: <5ab1dc970901261154o2cd5b6dcl369d1237bea75fc8@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Just to clarify,

I was using logic as a catch-all to refer to reasoning systems (i think similar to the way Ed used it a few emails ago.)

However, in an off forum email, he pointed out:

Ed wrote:

Category theory is a "reasoning system" in the same sense that "real analysis" or "linear
algebra" or "graph theory" is a reasoning system. It is just that the objects it reasons
about are properties of systems.  It isn't reasoning about reasoning; it is reasoning
about the behaviors of the systems.

Which is where my initial query came from. I guess i'm more interested in what makes something seem sensible / reasonable to another agent, and it is in this context that I appeal to an underlying "logic."

Perhaps a moot point from using terms too vaguely.

//Ali

On Mon, Jan 26, 2009 at 2:26 PM, Ed Barkmeyer <edbark@xxxxxxxx> wrote:
Ed Barkmeyer wrote:
> Matthew West wrote:
>
>> I was unaware that Category Theory was distinct from logic.

Actually, Ali Hashemi wrote that.  Sorry Matthew.  For the nth time,
I confused the quotes of quotes.

-Ed

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