SUO: Re: Gister This

[Jon Awbrey <jawbrey@oakland.edu>]

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posh.1. elegant or fashionable

posh.1.1. elegant

posh.1.1.1. tasteful

posh.1.2. fashionable

posh.1.2.1. faddish

posh.1.1.1 & posh.1.2.1 => contradiction.

Of course, this is exactly why the logical axiom against contradiction
is hedged to say that nothing can be A and ~A at the same time and in
the same sense of the term "A", which makes it serve principally as
as a device for spliting hairs whenever a new sense is demanded.

But what it means is that a registry of axioms is not an ontology.
At best a dictionary can serve as a stock from which an ontology --
a "knowledge soup"? -- can be cooked by sapient selection.
None of which solves our problem, which is to say what
sorts of selections are tasteful and which are not.

Jon Awbrey

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