Review of TUNES, arrow and the semantic web in the context of the introspector

James Michael DuPont mdupont777@yahoo.com
Mon Sep 1 04:38:01 2003


--- Brian T Rice <water@tunes.org> wrote:
> Arrow's use of the term "ontology" relates to the philosophy of
> Martin
> Heidegger, and is more poetic than technical. The Semantic Web's turn
> on
> it is related to "formal ontologies"  whose research started in the
> 1980's
> on knowledge representation and is basically a really limited, fairly
> useless perversion of the idea.


I have collected some links about this issue for review :

TimBL on ont.
http://www.w3.org/DesignIssues/Toolbox.html

Sowa :
http://users.bestweb.net/~sowa/peirce/ontometa.htm

And here is a very good set of links
http://www.formalontology.it/onto_papers.htm

More to come.

mike


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James Michael DuPont
http://introspector.sourceforge.net/

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