SUO: RE: RE: RE: Re: Re: Abstraction, Analogy, Example, Icon, Metaphor , Mo del, Morphism, Paradigm, Prototype, Simulation

["West, Matthew MR SSI-GREA-UK" <Matthew.R.West@is.shell.com>]

Dear Bill,

I agree with what you say.

However, what I see is a reluctance to peek over the fence.

Regards  
      Matthew
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: WBurkett@pdit.com [mailto:WBurkett@pdit.com]
> Sent: 02 November 2000 16:14
> To: West, Matthew MR SSI-GREA-UK; Stand Up Ontology
> Subject: RE: RE: RE: Re: Re: Abstraction, Analogy, Example, Icon,
> Metaphor , Mo del, Morphism, Paradigm, Prototype, Simulation
> 
> 
> Matthew:
> 
> 
> > Of course the basis is data models, rather than FOL type 
> stuff, but as I
> am
> > increasingly realising the gap between the two is narrower than most
> people
> > think. It is just that very few try to cross it.
> 
> 
> I am surprised to hear you make this observation because I would have
> thought this would have been self-evident.  Data models, 
> schema languages,
> FOL, knowledge representation languages - broadly speaking, 
> then all have
> the same purpose: to specify the syntactic form of 
> externalized knowledge
> for computational manipulation.  It is ultimately the purpose of the
> computational manipulation that governs the design of the language.
> 
> Bill
> 
> 
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