Thanks, I can see how the connection was probably made. Still seems like
the wrong choice of terminology, though.
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From: "J. Storrs Hall, PhD." <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: <agi@v2.listbox.com>
Sent: Monday, August 14, 2006 2:00 PM
Subject: Re: [agi] ontology
Ontology is the study of categories, the kinds of things that can be said
to
exist. Epistemology is the study of knowledge in the sens of how can we be
sure that we know anything, as in "I think, therefore I am." The AIers
aren't
really doing anything wrong besides maybe being a little high-falutin'; I
imagine that if they really did epistemology they would call it "knowledge
understanding."
On Monday 14 August 2006 13:06, John Scanlon wrote:
Does anyone know why the term "ontology" in artificial intelligence
refers
to knowledge representation, while in philosophy, theories of knowledge
belong to epistemology, and ontology refers to the study of being and
existence in itself?
I wonder if some researcher in the history of AI got the two terms mixed
up, and the mistake stuck.
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