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Re: [ontolog-forum] Ontology of Rough Sets

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From: Ronald Stamper <stamper.measur@xxxxxxxxx>
Date: Wed, 26 Jan 2011 20:39:52 +0000
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Agreed!    (01)

Ronald    (02)

On 26 Jan 2011, at 12:44, John F. Sowa wrote:    (03)

> Ronald and Pat,
>
> There is no such thing as a single, ideal ontology that captures
> every useful way of looking at everything from every possible
> perspective and granularity for every purpose.
>
> There are many different theories of contexts, situations,
> and situated communicating and interacting agents.  Those
> systems, theories, and implementations are valuable and
> efficient for many kinds of purposes.  In fact, they reflect
> the way people happen to be situated in some finite chunk
> of reality from one moment to the next.
>
> But other representations are useful for different applications,
> and there are systematic ways of converting one to the other.
> In particular, it's important to communicate with situated agents
> in terms of the situation in which they are operating.
>
> When an accident is imminent, you don't want to send a driver
> (or the car) a fully-qualified 4D specification.  You just want
> to say "STOP!"
>
> Fundamental principle:  Any single uniform universal representation
> is guaranteed to be awkward, inconvenient, or inefficient for a huge
> number of critical applications.
>
> John
>
>
>
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