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

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From: Kingsley Idehen <kidehen@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Wed, 06 Nov 2013 15:49:00 -0500
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On 11/6/13 1:14 PM, William Frank wrote:
Not only do scientists take what they happen to learn as the gospel, and all else as wrong, so do engineers.   For example, if they take a logic course in which all truth functions are derived from nand, then they believe that all truth functions are 'really' derived from nand, and that those who use the full set of mathematical English truth functional connectives just don't 'know' this basic truth.   In software, and ontology, engineers solve problems more and more with no regard to how these problems might have been elegantly solved in the last 100 years.   They seem to think there own minds, untrained in clarity and precision or even the ability to use Wikipedia, starting on ground zero, will naturally do a better job than the giants on whose shoulders they could stand.

Very well stated!!

This is our biggest problem today!

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