[plug] Data Abstraction

Denis Brown dsbrown at cyllene.uwa.edu.au
Wed Dec 17 15:29:56 WST 2003


At 15:09 17/12/2003 +0800, you wrote:
>On Wed, Dec 17, 2003 at 02:57:47PM +0800, Denis Brown wrote:
>| crop up in ontology discussions (and software)
>[...]
>| [I'm looking at ontology as a possible collection paradigm for the many and
>| varied bits of information that comprise the knowledge set to describe and
>| document computer systems.
>
>And I thought that ontology was a branch of philosophy...?  Certainly
>not something I'd associate with phrases like "paradigm" (eww!) and
>"document computer systems"!

That'll teach me to forget to bring my lunch and snack instead on a handy 
dictionary :-)

Denis





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