re:RE: SUO: The Story So Far
Robert,
Mits is the last name of The Common Man In The Street.
>### OK John, I give up again, who is/was T.C. Mits please?
There was a nice little book that had clever anecdotes and
stories for teaching mathematics of infinity and related topics:
Lillian R. Lieber and Hugh Gray Lieber
The Education of T.C. Mits
W. W. Norton & Company, Inc. 1942, 1944
By the way, if you ever wonder what any of these acronyms
mean, you might try Google. For YMMV, you would get 35,500
hits of which the first one points to the "Your Mileage
May Vary" home page. For "T. C. Mits", you would only
get 90 hits.
>BTW I am now confused about this so-called Nicola's Position... does he claim
or not that the clay and the statue are "identical"; and how does this related
to e.g. the "object-oriented" notion of object identity (as separate from any
of its attribute's values, even its lexical "identifiers") --so where can I
find the original text? Nicola, are you reading this?
Nicola has an ontology that he has been developing over the
past few years. He has attended many of our ontology
conferences, and he has organized many of his own. As the
discussion indicates, some of us are not happy with one of
his assumptions about identity, which implies that the clay
and the statue are two different things because they have
different "identity criteria". Until I heard what Nicola
was doing with identity criteria, I used to think that they
were good.
Again, I recommend Google. Type two words: ontology guarino
and you get 1,890 hits. You might try the following, which
has a pointer to a lot of his PDF files:
http://www.ladseb.pd.cnr.it/infor/Ontology/ontology.html
John