I am sorry to come up with the following lines, but it may help:
IMO
A concept marked/labeled/associated/represented by a word is a product
of abstraction, but the form, word, the name of the concept is tangible, shared
and not good for sorting knowledge, because
They are morphologically treated and identified in terms of a syntax
context,
The richer a concept is the longer its name gets, ease of formal identification
is reversely proportional with the length of verbal chunk used as a name
The relations of such building blocks are not vetted against reality,
where basically all the relations are reducible to a difference in size, which is
variable and comes also from the distance between observer and object
All date structures are reduced to lists and arrays, the rest is
overdoing the job or not having a programming language fit for purpose
The relations used may all be backtracked to spatial relations, except
part and whole which is not grounded in reality
No syntax parsing will ever result in semantic primitives, the domain
of which is not properly stated in current ontologies, because the concept of time
is not handled properly
Everything in this real world comes in families of threes and fours and
is made from simple constituents, such as the forms of energy/forces as
demonstrated by physics, transfer of genetic materials, etc.
Now this is only a ad lib remark, and may I add that by not being
interdisciplinary, multi-disciplinary enough, ontologists will never get their
business sorted out in a sane way, despite the financial and worldly success or
progress of some people in this line
The fact that new human artefacts are produced by the thousands
everyday will never let you have a rest, you will have to update your files all
the time just as you need to sort your email input box when one folder gets too
crowded, etc.
The Internet is a haystack and all it does is that it lets people search
in a haystack now it is a bigger emission problem than the cars out in the
street (Sunday Times two weeks ago)
“Knowledge is an ordered access to information”. Ordered access
means sorted data and sorted operations. While you are busy trying to sort out
your data, why do you forget about operations?
Cheers and with all my respect
Frank