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SUO: Re: Procedural Questions




I strongly endorse Jon Awbrey's critique of SUMO:

 > There are plenty of external criteria as to "what is standard
 > elsewhere" (WISE) that we might draw on as measures of ontological
 > "fitness" to purpose.  So it is not a matter of "creating" our own
 > criteria for grading ourselves, so much as reflecting on existing
 > criteria and trying to render them explicit, for our own good.

 > To say that SUMO must be approaching a state of "good enoughness"
 > on the evidence of narcissistic and solipsistic internal criteria,
 > or the fact that its rate of progress is retarding, is just plain
 > silly, given that its comport with what is standard elsewhere in
 > so many areas -- set theory, graph theory, formal language theory,
 > algebra, topology and real analysis, pure and applied mathematics
 > in general, the theory of computation and programming languages,
 > information theory, probability and statistics, systems theory,
 > semiotics....

I have deleted some of his more colorful comments -- not because I
disagree with them, but only because I am a bit more polite.

Bottom line:  I believe that a lot of hard work has gone into the
development of SUMO.  That work should be recognized as useful, but
I would never recommend it as a standard.

John Sowa