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Re: [ontolog-forum] Early use of the word 'ontology' in AI

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From: John McClure <jmcclure@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Tue, 05 Nov 2013 09:32:18 -0800
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"...But to be an ontology, a theory must have an additional claim about the 
existence of the entities that its variables refer to."    (01)

Presupposing methods to express those claims, exists.
I'm not aware any does, for prepositional properties.    (02)

Hayes paper talks of one prepositional property ("in")
... which should have been ("within") incidentally.
Sowa slides obliquely have claims about perspectives.
But neither really discusses the questions heads-on.    (03)

So, given that ontologies spring from language
And language is concept <-- verb:prep --> concept
ergo no useful 'property ontologies' yet exist.    (04)



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