Ed, (01)
I completely agree with everything you said about terminology. I
realize the value of good terminologies, and I wasn't criticizing
any of that work. (02)
EB
> Remember first that the audience for that work is people who write
> domain vocabularies, standards of practice and other semi-formal
> publications. The objective is to explain to such persons how to select
> terms, and conceive and write definitions that will be clear and
> understandable to other people who have some training in the subject domain. (03)
The point I wanted to make is that the overwhelming majority of
the so-called OWL ontologies on the web are *terminologies*.
Their definitions are stated as OWL comments, and they don't
use any of the reasoning methods designed for OWL. (04)
John (05)
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