Date:  Wed, 20 Dec 2000 18:38:51 EDT
From: "John F. Sowa" <sowa@bestweb.net>
To: WBurkett@pdit.com, "'sowa@bestweb.net'" <sowa@bestweb.net>,
       SUO <standard-upper-ontology@ieee.org>





...There will never be one single global ontology.
That goal is impossible to achieve.  Cyc tried to do that,
and they failed.  What they have now is a collection of
microtheories (which are similar to what Wittgenstein would call language games).

John Sowa