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SUO: Re: Re: Foundations for Ontology




To: "John F. Sowa" <sowa@bestweb.net>

> | By repeated contraction, expansion, and analogy, any theory or
collection of beliefs
> | can be converted into any other.  Multiple contractions would reduce a
theory to
> | the empty or universal theory at the top of the lattice that contains
only the
> | tautologies that are true of everything.  Multiple expansions would lead
to
> | the inconsistent or absurd theory  at the bottom of the lattice, which
> | contains all axioms and is true of nothing.

Wow! ... that's fairly profound :) .... is it really true ??

Seth Russell