Re: Troponym Structures?
Hi Jeffrey,
> A question: Why is it that ontology construction seems to be mostly
> about nouns, and not about verbs?
Substantives suit better for titles of top level
categories than verbs because a verb or a predicate
most often ties subject and object:
Subject Predicate Object
Stevie plays guitar
cat chases mouse
The relations of categories are not defined with the
titles of categories because this would lead into
a mess. If verbs were used, but still the titles of
categories were not used to define the relations of
categories, the titles/verbs would not include subject
and object. The titles would be in form 'to be something'
or 'being something'. It wouldn't help turning Abstract
into To be abstract, Concrete into To be Concrete, or
the Universal type into To be (when Universal type is
referred as Being, Being is not a verb), but if the users
of the ontology benefit from using verbs, then it is
intentional to use verbs.
-A