RE: [uos-convene] Endorsements

["Smith, Barry" <phismith@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

> [Mike:] Also, I don't think you will ever get a 'common upper ontology'
> any more
> than you will ever get a common enterprise ontology or a common
> ontology
> on any subject among any sufficiently large and diverse group of
> stakeholders.  Will this CUO be 3d or 4d? It cannot be both. Or do
> you
> mean by CUO, a broader lattice of UOs?

Certainly it cannot be both if 3D and 4D are interpreted
reductionistically, a la Matthew. But Basic Formal Ontology is based
precisely on the idea that one can represent (3D) continuants and (4D)
occurrents within a single framework:

http://www.uni-saarland.de/~pgrenon/down/grenon-tr3.pdf

if only you are careful to temporally index all the statements within
your ontology about continuants.
Barry