Re: On the definition of "ontology"
phayes@ai.uiuc.edu (Pat Hayes)
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Date: Wed, 4 Oct 1995 15:59:40 -0600
To: "Nicola Guarino" <guarino@ladseb.pd.cnr.it>,
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"Pat Hayes" <phayes@cs.uiuc.edu>
From: phayes@ai.uiuc.edu (Pat Hayes)
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At 5:10 PM 10/4/95 +0100, Nicola Guarino wrote:
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>
>In order to stress this molteplicity of models, we may refine the definition
>as follow:
>
>"An ontology is a *partial* specification of the intended *possible* models
>of a logical language"
>
But then what else is that logical language itself?
Pat
PS You know that eerie feeling of 'deja-vu', where you seem to have been
somewhere before? :-)
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