- From: Drew McDermott <drew.mcdermott@yale.edu>
- Date: Mon, 29 Dec 2003 19:11:00 -0500 (EST)
- To: www-rdf-logic@w3.org
> [Jim Hendler]
> If you and I are transacting business (or you are running a factory
> using a machine I manufactured) I don't see why we would need, or
> even want, to merge everything in our ontologies (for example, maybe
> you believe that Rush Limbaugh is a rational being and I cannot live
> with that belief)
In my model of ontology merging, two inconsistent ontologies can't be
merged; the result would have no models.
But I don't see why a judgment one way or the other about the
rationality of Rush Limbaugh would be a part of an ontology. Perhaps
there's a better example.
-- Drew
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-- Drew McDermott
Yale Computer Science Department
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