Re: [ontology-summit] Hackathon: BACnet Ontology

[John F Sowa <sowa@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

On 3/13/2013 10:07 AM, Dennis wrote:
> I really like the Baseball Umpire metaphor that you had in a post
> a couple of weeks ago...
> did it come from another source?    (01)

I heard that story years ago.  You can find many versions on the WWW.
But my version is crisper, with less useless verbiage than most.    (02)

As far as I know, my major contribution is to view the story
as a discussion of ontology.    (03)

If you want to use it in a talk, you might illustrate it with
a copy of Norman Rockwell's painting of the three umpires:    (04)

http://www.best-norman-rockwell-art.com/norman-rockwell-saturday-evening-post-cover-1949-04-23-game-called-because-of-rain-three-umpires.html    (05)

John    (06)



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