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Jonathan Borden wrote,
> Miles Sabin wrote,
> > Perhaps when you're done with the Tractatus you could move on to
> > the Investigations ;-)
>
> This is hardly an esoteric philosophical argument.
And my reply was? ;-)
> My interest in ontologies originates in my interest in more precisely
> writing and classifying medical documents (which are at the moment
> largely handwritten) and allowing these documents to be better stored
> and retrieved and transmittent from one location to another (e.g. a
> family doctor to a specialist).
In other words, the use of the information contained in those documents
(ie. the extended mechanical and social processes surrounding them) are
what gives the markup it's point.
Cheers,
Miles
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