Re: [ontolog-forum] Ontology in Mainstream Media

[Matthew Kaufman <mkfmncom@xxxxxxxxx>]

This surprises me as well.  Seriously?  Wow.  I mean I recall a few more main stream people (in my reserved opinion) were kind of being invited to speak or were speaking at Davos when it was last.

That's not a bad thing, but uuhm, is kind of a bad thing.

On Sat, Jan 26, 2013 at 1:02 PM, Peter Yim <peter.yim@xxxxxxxx> wrote:

Wow! Obviously not too many at Davos (World Economic Forum) realize
that term in metaphysics has been
co-opted, for 20 years already, by information scientist to mean
something quite specific.

This is great, nonetheless!

regards. =ppy
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On Fri, Jan 25, 2013 at 8:49 PM, Ali SH <asaegyn+out@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> Sort of pop interest, but thought people would appreciate it. The CEO of
> Yahoo, Marissa Mayer actually mentioned the word ontology at Davos, and it
> was reported ... in of all place ... the hollywood reporter.
>
> http://m.hollywoodreporter.com/news/davos-2013-yahoos-marissa-mayer-415324
>
> ===
> "...
> During the live stream outage, some people who were at the Mayer session
> tweeted that the Yahoo boss surprised the audience with the philosophical
> line: "You have to decide what the ontology of entities is." They said that
> the interviewer asked her to explain that, but nobody immediately shared her
> answer on Twitter. For those less interested in philosophy: Ontology is the
> philosophical study of the nature of being and existence.
> ..."
> ===
>
> Best,
> Ali

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