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Re: [ontolog-forum] Past, Present, and Future of Ontology

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From: "Richard H. McCullough" <rhm@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Wed, 27 May 2009 23:43:43 -0700
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From: "John F. Sowa" <sowa@xxxxxxxxxxx>    (01)

> Dick,
> 
> It is hard to imagine how anybody could say anything more
> simple-minded that that:
#### Is it really so simple-minded, when the next words out of
#### your mouth are "context is certainly relevant"?
> 
> RHM> All of your "problems" can be summarized in one word: CONTEXT.
> > The "solutions" are readily available: use a CONTEXT LANGUAGE.
> > mKR is a CONTEXT LANGUAGE.
> 
> Context is certainly relevant.  There are many well thought out
> theories and formalisms that have addressed the subject of context.
> But doing justice to the subject requires far more than a notation
> that happens to be decorated with the word 'context'.
#### If context is the central problem, then how can you deal with
#### the problem, unless you have a language based on context?
#### If you think that context is only a "decoration" in the mKR
#### language, then you don't understand mKR at all.
> 
> Please do your homework, study the issues, and read the many volumes
> of publications by people who have actually done their homework.
#### Context is an essential ingredient of Cyc.
#### Have they done their homework?
#### Is the Cyc philosophy relevant to the 
#### "Past, Present, and Future of Ontology"?    (02)

#### I grant that you are a great scholar, John.
#### But can't you put aside your academic bias long enough
#### to consider whether I am right or not?    (03)

> 
> John
> 
Dick McCullough
http://mkrmke.org    (04)

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