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The glorious battles of Ontology<BR> In these glorious battles, the Conquerors of Ignorance were saying:<BR> Let's understand categorization as an instance of something even more fundamental.<BR> Let's ontologize.<BR> Let's have better ontological notions.<BR> Let's have a system for the support of ontologies. Let's be formal.<BR> Let's have better systems for the support of ontologies.<BR>

As we become mythically more sophisticated, we realize that superclass-subclass relationships between categories are themselves instances of a single class of relationship, and that many other kinds of relationships can exist. And that other kinds of generalizations are possible, and that some of them are useful. Ontologies are born, and our goals evolve in much the same way as they did when we were trying to collaborate on categorization schemes.

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