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Let's review our mythical history of the battle against ignorance. We made the intellectual leap from categorization to ontologization by realizing that the notion of categorization itself -- the universe of discourse that contains the superclass-subclass relationship type -- was just a single instance of a system of expression. In other words, we realized that categorization is an aspect of those ontologies that support it. We could now move from the insight that categorization is useful to the deeper insight that ontologization is useful. Our motion might be triggered by considering the question: "What is the general class of things of which the "categorization" universe is an instance?"
It seems reasonable to ask a similar question at the ontology level: What is ontologization itself an instance of? Maybe the answer would open our eyes to the next sequence of goals that anti-ignorance workers might usefully strive to achieve.
I don't know that there is any single correct answer to the question posed by this slide. However...