ONT Re: Varieties Of Ontology -- Discussion
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VOO Discussion 2
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MW = Matthew West
MW: No catch, I'd just like to understand what you are trying to say.
MW: I'm afraid I can't find either an example or a definition below.
Or at least nothing I find enlightening.
MW: Let me try a guess.
MW: ROSO: Based on Maths and pure science.
Most accurate description possible the
main consideration.
MW: ULTO: Based on a pragmatic engineering view of the world.
Efficiency and effectiveness of description under most
circumstances the prime consideration.
MW: Anywhere close?
Okay, a true Ockhamist would have tried the short answer first.
All I intended by ULTO was just the sort of textbook knowledge
that one picks up in one's undergraduate education, especially
in the "upper level technical" courses, and what I intended by
ROSO was the way that this knowledge gets developed, extended,
and sharpened up on the job, whether that be Academic, Applied,
or R&D. Namely, one critically relies on that knowledge being
the best that it can be, as opposed, say, not that anyone here
would dream of such a thing, trying to reconstruct it all from
scratch out of "general information lexical entries" (GILE).
Here's a capsule history of related discussion:
http://suo.ieee.org/email/msg10702.html
http://suo.ieee.org/email/msg10707.html
http://suo.ieee.org/email/msg10759.html
http://suo.ieee.org/email/msg10987.html
http://suo.ieee.org/email/msg11446.html
http://suo.ieee.org/email/msg11454.html
Jon Awbrey
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http://www.cs.bsu.edu/homepages/mighty/history.html
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