Re: SUO: Multi-Source Ontology (MSO) Draft Ballot Question
Murray and Bill,
I agree.
Adam
At 11:13 PM 1/28/2004 +0000, Murray Altheim wrote:
>Burkett, Bill wrote:
> > Murray, Adam ---
> >
> > How can I differentiate a "philosophically-based" ontology from
> > "linguistically-based" ontology? "Philosophically" and
> > "linguistically" seem to refer to the academic point of view
> >from which the ontology was/is developed and fails to convey the
> > discriminating characteristics between the two. Would it be
> > more correct to say a "formal, logic-based ontology" versus a
> > "natural-language-based ontology"? I can understand and see a
> > clear difference between these two things, but "philosophy-
>< based ontology" leaves me scratching my head - what *is* such
> > a thing?
>
>Bill,
>
>I think your characterization is probably more accurate. I think
>of WordNet as basically a formalized thesaurus, where the relations
>between words have been codified into various classes, etc. But
>WordNet isn't based in FOL (unless one wants to make the argument
>that everything is based in FOL, which is specious), it's just
>based on lists of words that have been categorized and mapped via
>various known relation types. There is a logic to those relations,
>but the basis of the ontology is linguistic.
>
>The "formal, logic-based ontology" is what we were calling the
>"philosophical" ontology, which is admittedly, not a very good
>term. But I think/hope we all know what was meant: projects like
>Cyc, SUO, etc., where the basis of the ontology is at its root
>logic, and perhaps something like #$Thing.
>
>Sorry about the head scratching... :-)
>
>Murray
>
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