Mike, (01)
That is rather vague, especially since many ontologies use the
type Thing as the top category that includes physical objects,
abstract entities, relations, properties, events, situations,
propositions, etc: (02)
MB> As I see it, ontology is about defining things and facts about
> those things. By a process of elimination, anything that is not
> a thing or a fact is a matter of design and has no place in an
> ontology. (03)
If you consider Thing in the sense it is used in Cyc and many other
ontologies, it does very little to limit the scope. (04)
John (05)
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