Re: [ontolog-forum] Fwd: [New post] The Newest from SOA: The SOA Ontolog

[Pavithra <pavithra_kenjige@xxxxxxxxx>]

Dr. Sowa,

I beg to disagree.

Termonilogy alone does not help with computerization.   You may call a "brain" a "brain" that is not going to automate the brain!   

What is a brain ?  How does it work?  Work are the components?  how to they interrelate? etc, etc..  are the things that need for automation.  Ontology would provides that.

So folks, give your brain a little break and enjoy the holidays.  Before all systems become word processors!

Pavithra

--- On Sat, 12/25/10, John F. Sowa <sowa@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

From: John F. Sowa <sowa@xxxxxxxxxxx>
Subject: Re: [ontolog-forum] Fwd: [New post] The Newest from SOA: The SOA Ontology Technical Standard
To: ontolog-forum@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Date: Saturday, December 25, 2010, 11:32 AM

Folks,

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:

Observation:

For many applications, a good terminology is far more valuable
than a half-baked (or even a totally baked) ontology.

Implications:

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).

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.

John

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