Re: SUO: *Date 11 Feb 2002
Jon,
I completely agree with the following excerpt from your recent note:
>.... Nobody here, nor any small coalition
> among us, nor indeed any single group that I can think
> of anywhere in the world today, knows enough, working
> alone, to build anything that might deserve the name
> of a standard ontology.
One little qualification: following the phrase "working alone",
I would add "or together".
I would also add that the task of building anything that would qualify
as an official standard ontology could only be done *after* science
is finished -- i.e., all the major discoveries that can be made
have been made.
Given that disclaimer, I still believe that there is a lot of useful
work that can be done today. But that work can only be done *after*
everyone on the project acknowledges the limitations stated in the
excerpt I quoted above.
John Sowa