SUO: Ever Ending Stories
Pat Hayes wrote:
>
> [John Sowa wrote:]
> >
> > Jon,
> >
> > Yes, I believe that should be the guiding principle of the SUO:
> >
> > [Jon Awbrey wrote:]
> > >
> > > What you are saying here clicks in with the major shift that took
> > > place in my own thinking... that this whole turn was analogous to
> > > the paradigm shift that Aristotle motivated when he rephrased the
> > > "Big Question", just by way of getting some handle on it, to ask,
> > > not so much what things are, which we could not get directly at,
> > > as it was already becoming rather tiresomely clear even way back
> > > then, but what are all of us saying about the way things are, and
> > > what would it take to have any hope of making any of this jibe?
> >
> > I agree.
>
> I don't think that anyone disagrees. Obviously, any axiomatic ontology
> constitutes a knowledge representation which is saying something about
> the ways things are. All the discussions on this list are about
> comparing and contrasting different such representational
> strategies. The terms 'perdurantist' and 'endurantist'
> refer to representational strategies.
>
> Re-iterating these obvious platitudes is like standing in
> a carpenter's shop and announcing portentiously that this
> is all really to do with *wood*. True, of course, but don't
> expect it to impress the people with tools in their hands.
>
> > I believe that we will make a lot more
> > progress towards a useful SUO if we focus
> > on how to represent what scientists and
> > ordinary human beings want to say.
>
> I can't help noting that Whitehead was rather an extaordinary human being,
> and that you have unaccountably omitted engineers and enterprise modellers
> from your list.
>
> Pat Hayes
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Dear Gripetto,
I wdr if I cdr, but I just kant get over the wonder of it all!
Love,
Pynchonnio
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