[Sigia-l] Question about the use of the term 'ontology'

[Lars Marius Garshol]

* Lars Marius Garshol
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| which I think works...

* listera at rcn.com
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| How does it work, Lars? 

That's easier to understand if you preserve the context of the quote,
which was:

  "It *is* kind of diluted in general usage. I tried to define it as
  [...] which I think works, and I think topic maps fit that."

So it (the definition of "ontology") worked by defining the term
"ontology" that matches how it's generally used in computer science.

| When there's this much confusion on such seemingly basic terminology
| among the learned, how would the unwashed masses even begin to deal
| with this?

I don't understand the question. What's "this", and what do the masses
have to do with it?

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