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From: | Doug McDavid <dougmcdavid@xxxxxxxxx> |
Date: | Sun, 29 Aug 2010 06:06:03 -0800 |
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Thanks for this statement, John. It helps amplify the point I made on the Enterprise Architecture forum on LinkedIn (where this conversation started -- interesting that it is now continuing on Ontolog as well). My point was about business language, arguing that we should not dismiss it, simply because it has not the precision of ontological representations. What I was suggesting is that it has an interesting richness that very much deserves attention. What I like to see are richer ontological representations as ways of capturing and displaying the full meaning of "bed", for instance, which has whole complexes of different meaning, as we've seen, in the prison vs. the hospital domains. Instead of efforts to nail down the one true meaning of some term, I believe it is more helpful to open up proliferations of meaning-capture for more complete understandings of the domains being subjected to various well-meaning interventions. On Sun, Aug 29, 2010 at 5:43 AM, John F. Sowa <sowa@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: Ferenc, -- Doug McDavid Skype: dougmcdavid Mobile: 916-549-4600 Second Life: Doug McDavid Web: enterprisology.com _________________________________________________________________ Message Archives: http://ontolog.cim3.net/forum/ontolog-forum/ Config Subscr: http://ontolog.cim3.net/mailman/listinfo/ontolog-forum/ Unsubscribe: mailto:ontolog-forum-leave@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Shared Files: http://ontolog.cim3.net/file/ Community Wiki: http://ontolog.cim3.net/wiki/ To join: http://ontolog.cim3.net/cgi-bin/wiki.pl?WikiHomePage#nid1J To Post: mailto:ontolog-forum@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx (01) |
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