David, you observed: (01)
> As far as I've seen here, there is neither acknowledgement nor
> interest in this "drift" phenomenon. (02)
For more than some mere acknowledgement of such issues as semantic
drift, latterly on Ontolog, and including preoccupation with their IS
consequences such as "migrate" or "evolve" (with their derivatives),
you might try googling with each the following 3 strings (the final 2
words of each search giving the relevant focus): (03)
"semantic drift" metaset spottiswoode
evol metaset spottiswoode
migrat metaset spottiswoode (04)
The broader requirement is definitely also almost explicit in the
picture outlined here:
http://jeffsutherland.com/oopsla97/SpottiswoodeByndBO.html#table
(where the suffix in the name stands for the paper's title, "Beyond
Business Objects"), which is a link many of my Ontolog posts have
provided as background to their message. (05)
The whole scene is after all implicit in that underlying and
ever-present urge in philosophy and more specifically ontology, namely
to find anchoring concepts for addressing the real world of continuous
process and change. (06)
The other or social side of the coin is implicit in the present
Ontolog thread, "Ontologies as social mediators". (07)
Having said all that, I must admit that there are also contrary
tendencies on Ontolog, evidenced by occasional sympathies one might
characterize as Pythagorian, and by expressions such as "carving
reality at its joints". But I don't think that their use is unduly
imprisoning, or necessarily evidence of capture by Scylla the monster
of oversimplification. And there is general acceptance that the real
challenge lies across the strait, at Charybdis the whirlpool of
complexity, for which, of course, you might try googling on either of
those Homeric words together with the 2 focusing words I've already
suggested! (08)
Christopher (09)
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