Folks, (01)
Many cogent comments have been made in this thread. Instead
of commenting on each one, I'd like to make one general
observation that has two basic implications: (02)
Observation: (03)
For many applications, a good terminology is far more valuable
than a half-baked (or even a totally baked) ontology. (04)
Implications: (05)
Many of the disagreements on this list can be resolved by the
observation that the useful resources not based on a formal logic
should be called terminologies or lexical resources (e.g., WordNet). (06)
In fact, a large number of things implemented in so-called ontology
languages should really be called terminologies, since they use few or
none of the logical operators and reasoning methods of those languages. (07)
John (08)
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