Re: Ontology

Robert Neches <neches@ISI.EDU>

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Date: Mon, 24 Aug 92 20:58:39 PDT
From: Robert Neches <neches@ISI.EDU>


I propose that we henceforth treat the "theory" vs. "ontology"
terminological debate as an exercise in getting intelligent
systems to be robust across the use of different text strings for
terms that each knows how to process in its internal representation.

  -- Bob

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