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Mike, The following question arises in every science, and ontology is no different. Mike Pool wrote: > But how could you ever collect data without ontological > assumptions with which to start? You can't. And you can't do physics without some physical assumptions with which to start. Every science is a process of bootstrapping, which starts with some assumptions that may prove to be false as the science progresses. John