Re: SUO: Thoughts and judgments
Adam,
I agree that we need both.
JS>>As I have said many times, I believe that the structure of the
ontology
>>is far more important than any particular axiom.
AP> Yes, you've said this often, and I don't even disagree with this up
to a
> point. Just writing axioms willy-nilly is pointless, but so is discussion
> without formalization. We can't create a standard by discussion of Peirce
> and Frege unless someone takes the time to make concrete proposals in
> standards words derived from those discussions.
There are an infinite number of axioms that one could write, and it is
necessary to decide where to begin and how to organize the project.
That is the point of my paper.
John