Re: [ontolog-forum] Webby objects

[William Frank <williamf.frank@xxxxxxxxx>]

On Thu, Nov 22, 2012 at 3:54 PM, Rich Cooper <rich@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

Happy Turkey Day Everyone!

 

 

John Sowa wrote:

 

  1. Why aren't mainstream IT and web sites using ontologies?

 (...snip)

the vast majority a don’t get anything extra from an ontology that XML can’t provide with far more supporting infrastructure. 

This seems like a category mistake -- two categories of things treated as if they are commensurate -  an ontology is a theory, XML is a language, in which a theory might be expressed.
 

Compare:  "the vast majority don't get anything extra from number theory that French, (or first order logic, or JSON, ..., or OWL) can't provide." 

(snip ...)

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