Rob Freeman <lists@CHAOTICLANGUAGE.COM> Sent by: standard-upper-ontology@IEEE.ORG
16.12.2005 11:40
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"John F. Sowa" <sowa@BESTWEB.NET>
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standard-upper-ontology@IEEE.ORG
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Re: Fwd: SUO Quo Vadis
On Thursday 15 December 2005 18:12, John F. Sowa wrote:
> Rob,
>
> I did not say that ontology is subjective.
I'm sorry John. I forgot you don't like the word "subjective".
What you say is that you "would recommend a framework
in which one could choose different perspectives for
different purposes."
Anyway, I think there is a lot in common between what you are saying, what
I
am saying, and now what I understand Mark to be saying: that we need to
focus
on the human character of ontology, that we need to think of ontology as
the
result of a process, and "different perspectives for different purposes".
It would be nice if we could capitalize on that commonality.