Re: [uos-convene] Other Approaches Too.

[Sergei Nirenburg <sergei@xxxxxxxx>]

On Mar 1, 2006, at 12:07 PM, Smith, Barry wrote:

Bravo!
Ontologies are designed to help computers, but human beings need to be involved in building and maintaining them, and these human beings will make mistakes if ontologies contain counterintuitive terms.
One good rule is:

        for any term 'T', 'T' means T

Thus 'rabbit' should mean: rabbit, and not, for example: possible rabbit, or information about a rabbit.

Right. But what about 'chip' -- is it made of potato or of silicon and other stuff?

Sergei