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Re: [ontology-summit] [Making the Case] Elevator Pitch

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From: "John F. Sowa" <sowa@xxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Tue, 01 Feb 2011 15:59:17 -0500
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On 2/1/2011 11:20 AM, Yuriy Milov wrote:
>   A lot of
> cases could be resolved automatically by resoners without hiring expensive
> lawyers and the only unique cases would be needed real judges and lawyers.    (01)

A huge number of cases are resolved very quickly when the issues are
clear.  The ones that go to trial are almost always borderline cases,
where the question of which law or which distinction applies is
extremely ambiguous.    (02)

And the reasons why those issues are unclear has nothing to do with the
way lawyers or ordinary citizens think.  In most cases, the ambiguity
arises because of the complexity of the world and the difficulty of
dividing a continuum into discrete categories.    (03)

John    (04)

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