Re: post-structuralistm and (formal) ontologies

On Mon, 2008-02-04 at 17:55 +0000, Jeremy Carroll wrote:
> Kendall Clark wrote:
> 
> > Thus, while I think Jeremy's line of inquiry is interesting enough to
> > pursue, and I did actually do some work on it back in 2000, it's not
> > something that computer scientists, qua computer scientists, are
> > especially well prepared to work on. It's a question of the politics of
> > technology or social informatics more broadly construed, and should be
> > approached w/ the tools, methods, and background knowledge of the
> > practitioners of *those* disciplines.
> > 
> >>  > Any pointers appreciated.
> >>  >
> >>  > Jeremy
> > 
> 
> Thanks to both Kendall and Dan for the links ....

No problem.

> One thing that is different with computer science ontologies, and 
> perhaps Web ontologies is simply that they are typically more rigorously 
> defined.

More rigorously defined than what?

> Thus, a hypothesis such as "excessive use of owl:complentOf may indicate 
> some specific social phenonemenon" can be investigated somewhat more 
> cleanly than when dealing with classifications defined only with natural 
> langauge text.

I suppose; but that still seems like a hypothesis from some field other
than computer science.

Cheers,
Kendall