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Re: [ontolog-forum] Is there something I missed?

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From: Mike Bennett <mbennett@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Thu, 29 Jan 2009 20:14:31 +0000
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Thanks John, that's probably one of the places I got it from :-)    (01)

I was beginning to wonder with so many definitions and questions going 
about, if I was taking something for granted.    (02)

Mike    (03)

John F. Sowa wrote:
> Mike,
>
> That is a commonly used distinction:
>
> MB> A distinction I find useful (though not very formal) is that
>  > ontology (singular) is the study of what is, while ontologies
>  > (plural) are the representations of reality that exist - whether
>  > you know about it or not - within individual computer systems
>  > and databases, i.e. the local representation of the reality
>  > about which the computer is manipulating symbols, with varying
>  > degrees of success.
>
> See below for the opening paragraph of one of my tutorials on
> ontology.  The final section of that tutorial is a glossary.
>
> John
> __________________________________________________________________
>
> Source: http://www.jfsowa.com/ontology/ontoshar.htm
>
> 1. What is Ontology?
>
> The subject of _ontology_ is the study of the categories of things that 
> exist or may exist in some domain.  The product of such a study, called 
> _an ontology_, is a catalog of the types of things that are assumed to 
> exist in a domain of interest D from the perspective of a person who 
> uses a language L for the purpose of talking about D.  The types in the 
> ontology represent the predicates, word senses, or concept and relation 
> types of the language L when used to discuss topics in the domain D. An 
> uninterpreted logic is ontologically neutral:  It imposes no constraints 
> on the subject matter or the way the subject is characterized.  By 
> itself, logic says nothing about anything, but the combination of logic 
> with an ontology provides a language that can express relationships 
> about the entities in the domain of interest.
>
> This is from the first article in the Guided Tour of Ontology:
>
>     http://www.jfsowa.com/ontology/guided.htm
>
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