Re: SUO: RE: RE: Organization

["John F. Sowa" <sowa@bestweb.net>]

Martin,

I agree:

> For me it is self-evident that all modelling is partial, that whatever
> level of detail you model there will always remain ambiguities, and it then
> becomes a purely pragamatic decision to what level of detail is
> appropriate.

I like the quotation that is attributed to George Box (a prof.
of industrial engineerig at U. of Wisconsin):

  All models are wrong, but some are useful.

And, by the way, this is just one more reason why we need
a modular ontology system:  it has to be able to accommodate
a lot of wrong models that are useful for different purposes.

John Sowa