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Bernard Vatant bernard.vatant at mondeca.com
Tue Jan 29 14:32:25 PST 2008


Hi Rob
> For instance, Bernard waxed poetic on several aspects of the evolution 
> of meaning:
...
> In short - nothing means the same thing.  Nuance is everything.

Speak about poetry :-)

To put it in a nutshell, ontologies useful in science, as any theory, 
should be falsifiable by reality, whereas ontologies useful in 
engineering are built, as any technology, to control the reality.

Bernard





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