Ontologies and Language --- comment on Mark Musen's `Differing views of biomedical ontology'

Pierre Zweigenbaum

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Ontologies Language and the world

Pierre Zweigenbaum

Ontologies and Language — comment on Mark Musen’s ‘Differing views of biomedical ontology’

[e-mail] http://www.biomath.jussieu.fr/~pz/

STIMMission de recherche en sciences et technologies: de l’information médicale, DSI, Assistance Publique – Hôpitaux de Paris ; CRIM, INaLCO ; U729, INSERM

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(nearly) Nobody agrees to have ever seen any ‘proper ontology’ except self-referencing, which is to be discarded No instance⇒is ‘ontology’ a universal?

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