RE: What do the ontologists want

>Pat Hayes:
>
>I hate to tell you, but Frege (or possibly CS Peirce, historians are
>still arguing) did that already in the late 1880s, and weve been
>writing programs to handle it for the last 30-odd years.
>
>
>Reply:
>
>Great! So what RDF can I start using on my sites right now, and what can I
>do with it? I'm eager to add metadata, please tell me how.

Well, the issue is not really HOW to add metadata, but how to add 
metadata that a lot of other people have agreed on how to read. I 
would use KIF, myself, given my druthers,  but very few other people 
will, so it wouldnt do me a lot of good. The problems are largely 
social/political/commercial rather than anything to do with inventing 
new kinds of logic or re-doing old philosophy.  My point is only that 
there are off-the-shelf solutions to some of these technical problems 
available if people are willing to go and look on the shelves. But as 
we have seen, lots of people apparently aren't.  Unfortunately I have 
no solutions to offer for how to make the world work properly.

Pat Hayes

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