Re: Zeroth Order Ontology

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ZOO.  Discussion Note 16

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TJ = Tom Johnston

TJ: I'm very glad that my call for a bottom-up approach to SIO has prompted
    these contributions of yours.  But a perfectly appropriate response could
    also have been:  "Tom, put up or shut up".  Or, a little less succinctly:
    "Tom, could you please explain what you mean by a bottom-up approach, and
    perhaps even provide an example?"

TJ: So besides catching up on your post-vacation contributions,
    I'll try to do that.  Stay tuned.

Hi Tom,

Actually, I thought that we had reached some kind
of general understanding on that, as I wrote here:

http://suo.ieee.org/ontology/msg05156.html

Now, we don't want to get into any sort of logical Limbo here --
I mean a game or contest to see how low a person can go, not
like a logical Bardo or Purgatotio, or parts South of that.
Because you know I've been a logical _|_-feeder for far
too long for you to have a chance in Limbo at that ...

But examples are always good to get one's feet back on the ground.

Jon Awbrey

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