Re: ontological categories

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Date: Tue, 17 Oct 1995 08:58:52 -0400
From: "William J. Rapaport" <rapaport@cs.Buffalo.EDU>
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| Date: Mon, 9 Oct 1995 15:14:29 -0600
| To: cg, srkb@cs.umbc.edu
| From: phayes@ai.uiuc.edu (Pat Hayes)
| Subject: ontological categories
| 
| A quote I found recently:
| 
| ",,,their purpose being to allow....materials like coal and brains to be
| studied"
| 
| Anyone got a name for this category of materials?
| 
| Pat Hayes ;-)
| 

How about:  diamonds in the rough ?

:-)

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