Re: SUO: Re: Starter KB V2 Question #8
Graham wrote:
> I suggest whether it is ambiguous or indefinite doesn't matter in this
> regard, and that most people don't appreciate the difference unless you
> define the distinction you are making to them.
Granted Graham, though my point was only a general one about
ontologies -- it had been suggested that, somehow or other, some
notion of ambiguity be retained WITHIN the languages used for
constructing ontologies. I was simply arguing that this idea was
confused, and I tried to show, to the contrary, how ambiguity is
eliminated in an ontology -- there are no terms with more than one
meaning WITHIN the ontology. The notion of indefinitenes was
introduced as a mechanism for seeing how the ambiguity of natural
language, far from being ignored, can be acknowledged and managed
within an ontology.
Regards,
-chris
--
Christopher Menzel # web: philebus.tamu.edu/~cmenzel
Philosophy, Texas A&M University # net: chris.menzel@tamu.edu
College Station, TX 77843-4237 # vox: (979) 845-8764