Re: On the definition of "ontology"

phayes@ai.uiuc.edu (Pat Hayes)

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At  7:49 PM 10/3/95 +0100, Nicola Guarino wrote:
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>"An ontology is a specification of the indended models of a logical language".
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>Comments? 

Fine, as long as we don't forget that the models usually will include
'nonstandard' models which we *didnt* intend, so we shouldnt assume that
constructing an ontology somehow fully captures an idea.

Pat

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