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Book Club Ontology

Book Club Ontology

Inspirational Quote for Ontology Engineering Challenges

·Jun 29, 2021 06:21 PM

I found a quote in Deborah and Elisa's "Ontology Engineering" that I will refer to whenever I feel my brain breaking during our ontology work 🙂

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Robert M.
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have we moved on to classifying all the words of language? scope creep much?
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Daniel A.
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Peirce certainly did try to do so with his semiotics, or mainly with the type-token (and occurrences) ontological distinction.
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Larry S.
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I had not heard of Peirce before. What a fascinating person - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles_Sanders_Peirce
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Dean A.
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While I was doing my PhD, there was a postdoc in my group who was a big fan of Peirce. Instead of breaking down logic into Deduction and Induction (as the classics do), he broke it into Abduction (explanation) and Prediction. Much more pragmatic in many ways. Sherlock Holmes was a good example of abductive reasoning.
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Daniel A.
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Eco has a book about this in particular: The Sign of Three: Dupin, Holmes, Peirce. Haven't checked it out tho'.
Dean A.
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Eco is a great source of this sort of thing, and a lot of fun, too.
Dean A.
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The Name of the Rose talks a lot about abduction, but by putting it in the voice of Brother William (Sean Connery played him in the movie!)

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