Re: SUO: The Story So Far - Request for vote
>Nicola's proposal, below, makes a lot of sense to me.
>
> In practice, my proposal is as follows:
>
> 1. Let's carefully (and painfully) distinguish between axioms and
> primitives that achieve (reasonably large) consensus and
> axioms/primitives that do not;
>
> 2. When there is no consensus, let's isolate the alternatives and ask
> the supporters to i) explain, ii) motivate and iii) formalize both of
> them;
>
> 3. If enough explanation/motivation/formalization is achieved (up to
> a certain minimal degree) for both alternatives, then:
> 3.1 create a new branch in the ontology library
> 3.2 go on specializing the two branches in parallel, depending on
> the interest they
> receive.
>
> 4. Else proceed by considering only the alternative that was best
> explained, motivated, and formalized.
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To me too. In fact I think something like this is the only rational
way to proceed.
Pat Hayes
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