David and John M, (01)
DE
> https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Zachman_Framework_Detailed.jpg
>
> By no means am I saying that the Zachman Framework (which he now
> labels an ontology) is the bees knees. There are plenty of such
> frameworks—DoDAF, ToGAF, MoDAF—to choose from. (02)
JM
> What do you think of the six headings (who, what, why, when, how, where)
> as the most base classes in one's ontology? (03)
I'm the one who suggested those headings to John Z. He was planning
to extend his original 3-column framework to 6 columns. We were both
working at IBM at the time, got into some discussions about it, and
wrote a joint article: http://www.jfsowa.com/pubs/sowazach.pdf (04)
But don't thank me for the idea. Aristotle published it first. (05)
JM
> There are a few others (which, how much) that I believe are equally valid,
> but the utility of this general approach has been very appealing to me. (06)
Aristotle had ten categories with a question word (or phrase) for each.
In Greek, any word or phrase can be treated as a noun by putting a
definite article in front. (07)
Cicero translated Aristotle's categories into Latin, which doesn't have
a definite article. So Cicero used Latin nouns -- or coined new ones:
from 'quantum' (how much?), he got 'quantitas'; from 'qualis' (what
kind?), 'qualitas'. (08)
For more about Aristotle's categories and their relationship to logic,
see the slides for Aristotle's Patterns of Logic and Ontology: (09)
http://www.jfsowa.com/talks/aristo.pdf (010)
John (011)
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