- From: Alan Ruttenberg <alanruttenberg@gmail.com>
- Date: Wed, 24 Jan 2007 09:06:24 -0500
- To: Phillip Lord <phillip.lord@newcastle.ac.uk>
- Cc: public-semweb-lifesci hcls <public-semweb-lifesci@w3.org>
How would you phrase it? -Alan On Jan 24, 2007, at 8:55 AM, Phillip Lord wrote: >>>>>> "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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