Help us out here, Pat. What's the right way? rdfs:comment ? Independent publications (such as ontology specs)? Are we already doing everything we can? Jonathan On Mar 4, 2008, at 11:48 AM, Pat Hayes wrote: > At 6:46 PM -0500 3/3/08, John Cowan wrote: > > Cutting to the chase, as philosophical debates are inappropriate to > this forum: > >> > RDF and OWL already have identity built into their model >> theories, so >> > we don't need anything new to have that. >> >> They have formal identity, but not grounded identity, and it's >> grounding >> that we need in order to be talking about anything. > > Indeed. Exactly. And one cannot get grounding by making purely > formal assertions, even if they are called 'declarations' and you > have to believe them, on pain of being very naughty. David wants to > get grounding, but he's going about it the wrong way. > > Pat
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