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Re: SUO: The lattice of theories




Folks,

At 08:25 AM 6/10/2002 -0400, John F. Sowa wrote:

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>Furthermore, you can start your library with as many or as few theories
>as you want.  A single monolithic theory, such as SUMO, is simply a
>lattice with just one element.  If you break SUMO into modules, you can
>still keep SUMO in the lattice as one complete whole, with each of its
>submodules as different generalizations.

Just to clarify, SUMO is not a monolithic ontology.  It has since version 
22 (Nov, 2001) been divided into 11 modules.  No one has proposed any 
alternative versions (with axioms) for any of the modules however.

[snip]


>John Sowa

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