SUO: Re: Standard Upper Ontology Procedure Topics
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SUOPT. Note 8
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SUOPT Outline. http://suo.ieee.org/email/thrd1.html#11635
CA = Chris Angus
JA = Jon Awbrey
Continuing from:
SUOPT 07. http://suo.ieee.org/email/msg11729.html
In fine:
JA: The main thing is to put a Topic heading, as if in a program outliner,
at the proper place in the Archive, at first just asking "What is X?",
by way of prompting participants to think about the "Ontology of X",
if they prefer to pose it that way, but with the focus more on what
does X mean in the context of the prospective SUO Procedures that we
will one day hope to follow toward greater success than in past times.
CA: This might well be laudable and useful excercise, it is
the mechanism that you are using that causes me difficulty.
Why not gather these 'topic headings' together in one document
and present the resultant 'outline' in a single hit. If I want
to know what is in a book I would rather see the contents page as
a whole, rather than have it transmitted one line at a time, each
in a separate email.
Chris,
This is a text that is being developed in interactive dialogue --
the Dia- means Across and Through, not Two, and so there is no
actual necessity to 1-up it, or 2-up it, or k-up it for j >= 3.
Were it just an issue of synergetically nudging the planchette
of a Ouija™ board, or more generically a simple binary Oui/Non
board around until an Up or Down With It decision were reached,
then maybe it'd work well enough to use a Wiki^2 for this work --
I am sure that some of our tasks could be handled more handily
in one or the other of these media, <ironic comment deleted>.
But the business of expending vast efforts on documents that
nobody reads or can guess the practical consequence of when
they do, that's a business we've been in for way too long
already, and I'm looking for other ways of doing the work.
If I want to know what's in a book, I go to my shelves,
a bookstore, or a library and read it in the manner to
which I have long been accustomed. But this is about
using these new-tangled media to do something that we
could not do before, or has everybody forgotten the
blurbs and manifestoes of just a few years ago?
Jon Awbrey
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