RE: Is the meaning of order intrinsic ?

>I'm sure your right.  I've been struggling with arriving at a good ontology
>to use to express this term "prior, axiomatic, innate, a first principal,
>atomic".  Any suggestions are certainly very welcome.   If 'Thing' be the
>name of the top class of our ontology, then a subclass of that might be
>named 'Pattern' with 'Sequence' being an obvious name of a
>subClass thereof.
>Yet any Thing isA Concept, least it not exist in our ontology, and
>a concept
>seems to me to be just a Pattern and we are not allowed to loop. ... so go
>figure ....

The struggle may be a sign that the wrong question is being asked...

(though it may just be difficult, or even like Kryton of 'Red Dwarf' trying
to say a word his ontology chip wouldn't allow : "Smeeeeeeeeeee...")

Received on Saturday, 26 May 2001 14:41:02 UTC