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Re: [ontolog-forum] Ontology of Rough Sets

To: tara_athan@xxxxxxxxxx, "[ontolog-forum]" <ontolog-forum@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
From: Pat Hayes <phayes@xxxxxxx>
Date: Tue, 25 Jan 2011 02:06:52 -0600
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Excellent suggestion. This is routinely done in many online forums where 
overloaded terms are used. However, I think it is only practical to build the 
'guide' as we go along, rather than pre-guess all the uses of all terms in 
advance.     (01)

Pat Hayes    (02)

On Jan 23, 2011, at 3:06 PM, Tara Athan wrote:    (03)

> It would be helpful if there were an introductory message (an FAQ or a 
> Guide to Users or something) that provides guidelines for disambiguating 
> some of the overloaded terms that arise in ontology discussions. For 
> example, we could use qualified names
>  owl:Class, when we are talking about class as defined in the OWL semantics
>  rdf:Class, similarly
>  vNBG:Class,   type-theory:Class, ...
> and especially, provide the normative references where newbies (I 
> include myself) can read up to find out what these definitions are.
> 
> Sometimes I don't even know I am using an overloaded term, because I 
> have only read references that use the term in a particular meaning.
> 
> Then if I and other newbies use a term that needs disambiguation, 
> someone can (gently) remind us to refer to the Guide to Users and 
> disambiguate our terms before resubmitting our question.
> 
> Respectfully, Tara
> 
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