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It Is What It Does: The Pragmatics of Ontology as ... - Tom Gruber

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<strong>The</strong> role <strong>of</strong> formalism• Formal specification helps communicatethe definition <strong>of</strong> terms in reader- andcontext-independent ways.• Formal language semantics allows someautomated consistency checks.• Formal axiomatization is never sufficient.• <strong>It</strong> always comes down to the primitives!(c) 2000, 2003 Thom<strong>as</strong> <strong>Gruber</strong>

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