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[Len Yabloko <lenyabloko@xxxxxxxxx>]

Dear Ontologers, 

I noticed that some question often discussed on this forum appears unanswered on Quora.

Doe anyone here use Quora or any other expert board to share your knowledge?

This seems a good application to expand the acceptance of ontology in mainstream.

Here are the questions I noticed (sorry if HTML is messed by email):

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Answer added to topic Ontology. 12 Jan, 2011

What's the difference between an ontology and a taxonomy?

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Marin Dimitrov, CTO @ Ontotext

the other answers are precise but probably a bit complicated for the non-expert...

a shorter answer:

• taxonomy is usually only a hierarchy of concepts (i.e. the only relationbetween the concepts is parent/child, or subClass/superClass, or broader/narrowe...

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Question added to topic Ontology. 14 Oct, 2011

What is object-oriented ontology?

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Question added to topic Ontology. 7 Oct

Can you share some good sites of ontology specially gene ontology?

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Answer added to topic Ontology. 15 Feb

What are the most useful ways to create abstractions?

2

LeRoy Barnhart, "Retired" mathematics instructor... (more)

Mathematics

  

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Answer added to topic Ontology. 11 Aug

The Big Philosophical Questions: Is there Absolute Truth?

  

David An, Playandroid.com

2 votes by Dhruv Ringe and Ashish Rana

To say "There is no absolute truth" is an absolute truth claim in itself

  

11 Aug

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Answer added to topic Ontology. 12 Feb

Why are there so many projects to build The One Ontology to Rule Them All?

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Bue Thastum, Studying for a MSc degree in Cop... (more)

Possibly due to the same kind of dynamic as illustrated in this.

  

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Question promoted in topic Ontology. 6 May

Is the Quora team planning to publish Quora Topic Ontology as linked, open data in the future?

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Question added to topic Ontology. 9 Oct

What is a difference?

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Answer added to topic Ontology. 11 Oct

Thesaurus/Ontologies: is there a downloadable database of the english thesaurus for my own use?

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Sundaram Ramaswamy, Curious

Try out Artha (http://artha.sourceforge.net/) an off-line, open-source free thesaurus for daily and easy use.

  

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Question added to topic Ontology. 11 May, 2011

Who is working on multidimensional industry classifications / ontologies / faceting?

Traditional industry classifications like NAICS are tree-structured taxonomies -- every node has exactly one parent node. This means that... (more)

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Question promoted in topic Ontology. 31 Aug

Artificial Intelligence: What is the relationship between the terms Artificial Intelligence, Machine Learning, Soft Computing, Natural Language Processing and Neural Networks? How much are these similar or different?

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Question added to topic Ontology. 9 Mar

What are some examples where combining taxonomies and tags would result in a good design?

If so, why?

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Answer added to topic Ontology. 16 May

New Atheism: What do the 'new atheists' think of 'continental philosophy'?

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Ali McMillan, Working knowledge of most Contin... (more)

Richard Dawkins made his negative opinion of so-called 'postmodernism' quite clear in his review of Sokal and Bricmont's Impostures Intellectuelles / Fashionable Nonsense. ... (more)

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Answer added to topic Ontology. 7 Feb, 2011

What is the perfect Truth?

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Realexis Castro

Perfection is only ever perfection when it is flawed, the perfect truth would then have to be that "This is a lie."

  

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Question added to topic Ontology. 6 Nov

Actor-Network Theory: What is the explanatory power of ANT in the context of social sciences?

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Question added to topic Ontology. 25 Jul, 2011

What is the precise difference between an attribute and a property?

These words are commonly used interchangeably, but they would seem to have some precise distinction at least in philosophic discourse. Pl... (more)

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Question added to topic Ontology. 14 Sep

Philosophy: What are some relationships between epistemology and phenomonology?

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Question added to topic Ontology. 7 Dec, 2011

Continental Philosophy: What's the relation between affects and intensities in Deleuze and/or Brian Massumi?

Answers only regarding one of the thinkers are also appreciated

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Answer promoted in topic Ontology. 15 Oct

The Big Philosophical Questions: Is there Absolute Truth?

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Keinosuke Johan Miyanaga, 宮永 計之介

Axioms within their paradigms are absolute truths. 

To this extent, they must exist to sustain their paradigms. However, this also ties them to a context, which contradict... (more)

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