Re: consensus and consistency

>/me q+ to suggest that consensus is valuable almost intrinsically, and
>to note that even informally specified ontologies are useful in order to
>encourage people to use terms in consensus (related to, but less formal,
>than consistency) with lots of other people. Let us look at formally
>specified ontologies as a specialization that allows us to delegate
>certain computations (such as consistency) to the machine.

Agreed. Very nicely put.  One tiny comment: the idea of an SW *agent* 
is often understood to extend 'machine' in ways that some folk might 
not have previously thought about. That said, however, what this 
suggests to me is that we would make a lot more progress if we 
focused on what effects anything we might say could have on how these 
machines are expected to behave.

>I guess I'll mail it rather than (a) interrupting the
>conversation or (b) losing the thought.
>
>q+ in the sense of
>http://www.w3.org/2002/03/RRSAgent

?? So, any number of q's? What does THAT mean? Never mind....

Pat

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