ONT Varieties Of Ontology -- Discussion
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VOO Discussion 1
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MW = Matthew West
In: VOO. http://suo.ieee.org/ontology/thrd1.html#05209
Re: VOO 1. http://suo.ieee.org/ontology/msg05209.html
MW: This is a good question. But I do nto recall, and cannot
find quickly the distinction between a ROSO and an ULTO.
Could you provide a definition/description please?
Oh Ho! I see you mean to have your revenge on me for my
petty pedantic logical insistence on definitions, but it
was precisely to pre-fudge the odds on this score that I
adverted to the classical theme of definition by example.
Not only that, but this present business illustrates the
poignancy of Peirce's observation that the extensions of
concepts are apples in the minds' eyes of the respective
conceivers, meaning that the apples that fall under your
concept <Apple> may vary in their marks, whether natural
or accidental, from the marks of the bunch under my tree.
Sub ROSO, then, let us severally and/or together think of all the
research enterprises with which we severally and/or together have
some experience and familiarity. Then let us think of the brands
of ontological assumptions that afford us the enabling can-do-its
of these various and sundry lines and lives of inquiry. And that
will serve to stake out the tents of the traveling circus that we
need to keep in mind, under the Big Top of the "research oriented
scientific ontology".
Sub ULTO, then, let us severally and/or together think of all the
soft peddled and all the hard knocked bits of information by slop
and by dent of which we severally and/or together came to the Age
and filled out the Vintage to know just barely enough to carry on
these explorations in pure, applied, and/or self-applied research.
Now that is what I call a definition, so far as it can be divined.
For the time being,
Jon Awbrey
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