Re: [ontolog-forum] Foundation ontology, CYC, and Mapping

[David Eddy <deddy@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Rob -    (01)

On Feb 18, 2010, at 2:55 AM, Rob Freeman wrote:    (02)

> I would almost be interested to see your model of the real world
> without mathematics.    (03)


I would like to see the mathematical model that "proves" this:    (04)

pound -->  [mathematical proof]  -->  lb    (05)

Obviously if you're literate in Latin and/or French getting livre  -- 
 > lb is easy... I guess.  But I'm thinking that the set of people  
literate in Latin, French, English & doing interoperability projects  
is very close to zero.    (06)


Algorithmically it is trivial to produce:    (07)

pound  -->  [automatic vowel removal]  -->  pnd    But that's 100%  
useless.    (08)

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