RE: SUO: 2000-7-26 Peircean categories
Cathy,
At 12:06 PM 9/5/2001 -0500, Cathy Legg wrote:
>On Fri, 31 Aug 2001, pat hayes wrote:
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>Thus I see the categories more as a high-level tool for an ontologist to
>evaluate and guide their own ontologising than as an element of the
>ontology itself. Most importantly, (in philosophy) I have found that their
>simple but very general structuring power leads me to ask powerful
>questions.
I agree with this. The concepts are useful during ontologizing, but, as
far as I can see, are not needed as terms in the ontology itself. I'm
happy to be convinced otherwise if someone can axiomatize them and show how
they can be used productively in inference.
Adam
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>Cathy.
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