Re: SUO: Definition of life
Doug,
At 08:01 AM 6/2/2002 -0700, Douglas McDavid wrote:
[snip]
>By the way, you put an interesting twist on the ontology of purpose when
>you say "useful for our purposes". Purpose of ontology?
>
>And one more "by the way": neither system, nor purpose, are concepts
>ontologized in SUMO.
I'm not sure if you were making the point that the supposed absence of
these words is a good or a bad thing, but the notion of a purpose is indeed
in SUMO
<http://ontology.teknowledge.com:8080/rsigma/SKB.jsp?req=SC&name=hasPurpose&skb=SUMO>.
I should also point out that many English words do not embody clearly
definable concepts that deserve to be in an ontology. We'd welcome a
precise definition of any concept that someone feels is missing in SUMO.
Adam
>Doug McDavid
>
>IBM Business Innovation Services
>Member, IBM Academy of Technology
>mcdavid@us.ibm.com
>
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