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To: "Patrick J. Hayes" <phayes@xxxxxxx>
Cc: "[ontolog-forum]" <ontolog-forum@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>, KR-language <kr-language@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>, "Richard S. Latimer" <rslatimer@xxxxxxx>
From: "Richard H. McCullough" <rhmccullough@xxxxxxxxx>
Date: Wed, 9 Apr 2014 12:42:33 -0700
Message-id: <COL129-W3096C54CF61C4132D9EE0FCB6A0@xxxxxxx>
This sounded kind of crazy when it first popped into my mind.
But I think I've really got the right words this time.

Class of all classes is okay, but it's not part of the physical context
which describes the entity-characteristic-proposition world
external  to us.  It's part of the epistemology context which
describes how our minds work.  In that context you can say
things like

           Class subClassOf Resource .
           Resource subClassOf Class .
           Class is Resource .

But Class is a mental entity, not a physical entity.
You will notice that Class does not appear anywhere in the
CPS hierarchy of

           http://ContextKnowledgeSystems.org/kb/spo.rdf.html
 
Dick McCullough
Context Knowledge Systems
mKE and the mKR language
mKR/mKE tutorial

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