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Re: [ontolog-forum] sharing and integrating ontologies

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From: Rick Murphy <rick@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Fri, 01 Oct 2010 10:58:40 -0400
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On Fri, 2010-10-01 at 04:13 +0000, FERENC KOVACS wrote: 
> Wordnet defines entity as "that which is perceived or known to have its
> own distinct existence."
> 
> Ferenc:
> 
> which is the same thing as saying
> 
> An entity is (a whole) object with the property of existence (the most 
>generic 
> one).    (01)

Disagree. Entity subsumes Object and Concept. See [1].    (02)

Concepts are abstract entities in the referenced paper. Objects are
concrete. Concept and Object are complements: their extents are
disjoint.    (03)

Returning to the subject of earlier threads, Abstract Objects have no
extent: they do not exist.    (04)

1 http://www.ditext.com/church/nae.html    (05)

> Ferenc    (06)

--
Rick    (07)




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