Friday, December 09, 2005
(new thread on Emergency Medical Ontology Project planning à [home] )
Comment from someone:
While I do have some ideas about how to
model context, I am not sure how to fit it into the formal theories (Breaking
each context into an ontology doesn't seem to work as it is too
structured). Category theory (Which I
don't fully understand) seem to start to give us a way to talk about the
relationships between context.
But, I'm not sure we even need that
complexity at this point if we can create our set of concepts within a
contextual framework, it becomes a separate problem to figure out how to deal
with those statements with various formal systems.
Note:
One can formalize what you have said
here. Let the set of contexts be
enumerated as the set
{ C i | i is from an indexing set }
The category theory that Finn and
Pospelov, and the Soviet School of Applied Semiotics developed, has based on an
identification of things that are invariant across multiple contexts.
Sowa, his student Ballard, and others like
Zachman and Adi use an informal analysis to create the set of invariants, and
call them "semantic primitives".
There are 30 Zachman semantic primates, 12
Sowa primitives, 18 Ballard primitives and 32 Adi semantic primitives. I generalized this work in the form of general framework theory
(which is unpublished).
The separate problem (to figure out how to deal with contextual statements) is the problem of generating substructural ontology and process methodology (which I call event chemistry).