- From: Phillip Lord <phillip.lord@newcastle.ac.uk>
- Date: Wed, 24 Jan 2007 13:55:09 +0000
- To: Alan Ruttenberg <alanruttenberg@gmail.com>
- Cc: public-semweb-lifesci hcls <public-semweb-lifesci@w3.org>
>>>>> "Alan" == Alan Ruttenberg <alanruttenberg@gmail.com> writes: Alan> Start at http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Formal_Ontology Alan> -Alan Well, it starts of with this.... "A Formal ontology is an ontology modeled by algorithms. Formal ontologies are founded upon a specific Formal Upper Level Ontology, which provides consistency checks for the entire ontology and, if applied properly, allows the modeler to avoid possibly erroneous ontological assumptions encountered in modeling large-scale ontologies. " Almost none of which I would agree with.
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