Re: Upper ontologies

People on this list should be familiar with the line ”The nice thing about standards is that there are so many of them to choose from.”


> On Jan 11, 2021, at 5:07 PM, Cox, Simon (L&W, Clayton) <Simon.Cox@csiro.au> wrote:
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> I meant 3000 of course
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: Cox, Simon (L&W, Clayton) 
> Sent: Tuesday, 12 January, 2021 09:07
> To: Mikael Pesonen <mikael.pesonen@lingsoft.fi>; semantic-web@w3.org
> Subject: RE: Upper ontologies
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> 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.  
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> -----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:
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> https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Upper_ontology
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> Isn't the idea to make just one that everyone can use?
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Received on Monday, 11 January 2021 22:27:33 UTC