Re: Multiple ontologies

Gio Wiederhold <gio@earth.stanford.edu>

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Date: Wed, 9 Oct 91 22:16:22 PDT
From: Gio Wiederhold <gio@earth.stanford.edu>
To: sowa@watson.ibm.com
Cc: Marianne Siroker <siroker@eclipse.stanford.edu>, NECHES@isi.edu,
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Subject: Re: Multiple ontologies
In-reply-to: Your message of Sun, 6 Oct 91 10:29:54 EDT
Message-id: <CMM.0.90.2.687071782.gio@earth.Stanford.EDU>

I agree with John Sowa, but do want to point out that the problem of 
comflicting ontologies goes beyond term definintions, but can also
require changes of interpretetive power.
(My canonical exaple is time-invariant and time-oriented reasonong.)
Gio