Re: knowledge misrepresentation and category theory

Excellent - If CG contributes to ontology alignment I expect it to provide
a stepping stone for miscategorization

Carl

It was a pleasure to clarify


On Tue, Jan 14, 2020 at 8:19 AM ProjectParadigm-ICT-Program <
metadataportals@yahoo.com> wrote:

> You are getting yourself onto hot and turbulent waters by putting the
> blame and faults with category theory. The problem resides with the notion
> of what constitutes knowledge. Omissions, distortions and
> misrepresentations cannot be blamed on category theory. I left out category
> theory in all but the SDGs objectives, where ontology alignment and
> frameworks for dealing with indicators will use category theory.
>
> I am working on a set of related papers inspired by seemingly unrelated
> applications of category theory in cognitive science studies of the brain,
> ontology alignment, the notion of perception and the philosophical debate
> about concepts, cognitive and conceptual structures,the mathematical
> underpinnings of grand unified theories and theories of everything, and
> mathematics to reconcile the Godel Skolem theorems, string theory and
> quantum reality.
>
> Again, category theory stresses consistency, and shows us systems for
> comparison of well thought and proven knowledge representation frameworks,
> not with the creation of those frameworks.
>
> Therefore IMHO the points you bring up are at the level of nuts and bolts
> construction of KR systems itself.
>
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> On Monday, January 13, 2020, 9:14:24 PM AST, Paola Di Maio <
> paola.dimaio@gmail.com> wrote:
>
>
> I ll soon be sharing a paper where I mention various errors and flaws
> caused by poor
> knowledge mis- representation,
> in brief -
> 1. omissions (where the knowledge is not represented)
> 2. distortions (where the knowledge is twisted to represent something not
> intended)
> 3. miscategorization (this problem is one of the challenges of category
> theory, not particularly well researched afaik)
>
> I wonder if KR can help address the miscategorization problem
>