RE: Upper ontologies

Even 'upper' ontologies come from a particular a point of view, and a corresponding suite of applications that they are best for. There is no single truth, that's why Philosophy is a research discipline for best part of 300 years.  

-----Original Message-----
From: Mikael Pesonen <mikael.pesonen@lingsoft.fi> 
Sent: Tuesday, 12 January, 2021 02:41
To: semantic-web@w3.org
Subject: Upper ontologies

Maybe this is a stupid question but why is there (at the moment) 17 different upper ontologies:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Upper_ontology


Isn't the idea to make just one that everyone can use?

Received on Monday, 11 January 2021 22:09:37 UTC