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From: | Pavithra <pavithra_kenjige@xxxxxxxxx> |
Date: | Fri, 26 Apr 2013 03:36:30 -0700 (PDT) |
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John, To come up with Ontology of something, you have to understand that thing, its form of existence, and description, ( for attributes ) and associations and behavior and some times, what it does or functionality. Definitions are a must for Ontology. One way of getting started is to understand how a word is defined present, the semantics, and how many different ways it is being used and understand the different aspect of it.. Standard Dictionaries are first step for Ontology. As an Ontologist, one can study the concept of "God" as it is being practiced, preached, believed, followed etc. You all have defined thing as the universal type. In this particular case that "thing" is "God"! For all practical purpose, one can easily say , in main stream God exists thru religions and it is defined in the books of the religions like Bible! Books are proof of documentation and whether it is real, does God exist with or without the books or can be scientifically proven is up the scientists to prove. You can have imaginary concepts in Ontology. ". Thank you, Pavithra From: John Bottoms <john@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> To: [ontolog-forum] <ontolog-forum@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Sent: Thursday, April 25, 2013 10:30 PM Subject: Re: [ontolog-forum] Dennett on the Darwinism of Memes Pavithra,
(my comments are below) On 4/25/2013 9:56 PM, Pavithra wrote: Pegasus is a well-known entity used in discussing what is permissible in philosophy. The question is typically whether we should allow Pegasus to be a subject of discussion, and in what way do we discuss it. I think the same question exists within the discussion of ontologies. We have not yet addressed that in this forum as far as I know. In an ontological discussion we can ignore the question of definitions. We should be looking at the structure of the topic "god" and help users decide where they will put it in an ontology. If the user wants to put it somewhere that it doesn't make sense, and they persist (such as putting "god" in science), then it should become apparent fairly quickly that the predicate wouldn't allow it under science, or the classifier for "god" would recommend putting it elsewhere. We agree here, at least for the first question. The others are not a topic for ontologies. idem... The forum is about ontologies. Is there a place in an ontology for "religion", "god', etc? I hope so. It would be an interesting study to look at an ontological structure. Is there a place in the science ontology for discussions about "god"? I don't think so. It would more likely be under "the philosophy of religion", or "the nature of science", in "philosophy". -JohnB
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