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Re: [ontolog-forum] Foundation Ontology [was Semantic Web shortcomings]

To: "John F. Sowa" <sowa@bestweb.net>
Subject: Re: [ontolog-forum] Foundation Ontology [was Semantic Web shortcomings]
From: "Andrei Voronkov" <voronkov@cs.man.ac.uk>
Date: Fri, 22 Aug 2008 09:40:03 -0700
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John,

> I have no strong preference.  Does anyone else have any
> suggestions for a name that avoids confusion and has
> a good acronym?

I have nothing against the name: I think it is quite
precise. It is the use of the acronym that causes
confusion. Maybe this is my personal view but
I stumble upon every use of FO as foundation
ontology.

To me, "Foundation ontology" is short enough to be
used without an acronym.

A

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