RE: SUO: Re: World's largest individual organism

[WBurkett@pdit.com]

Title: RE: SUO: Re: World's largest individual organism

Thanks - I misread/misinterpreted your original comments. 

Bill

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> Subject: RE: SUO: Re: World's largest individual organism
>
>
>
> > > It would make sense only if it were to be helpful in
> communicating what
> > > our goals were.  Surely that would be the only role of
> making the purpose
> > > formal.
> >
> > Mike,
> >
> > I strongly disagree.  I think the identification of
> purposes is extremely
> > relevant with respect to the design and evaluation of the
> SUO (whether the
> > purpose are formalized or not).  They provide a kind of yardstick or
> > criteria by which to judge the "goodness" or completeness
> of the SUO, and
> > decision tool for including/excluding items from the SUO.
> >
> > The purposes are the whole reason we are doing any of this!
> >
> > Bill
>
> There is no disagreement, only misutderstanding...
> You forgot to quote the line before, which said:
>
> > I'm not in favour of our spending effort to formalize our
> purposes for
> > building the SUO.
>
> What I'm saying is the only reason to put purposes INTO A
> FORMAL LANGUAGE is if
> for some reason plain English was inadequate to communicate
> what we meant. I
> agree with you that getting purposes clearly stated is of
> paramount importance.
>
> MIke
>