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Re: [ontac-dev] Types, sets, extensions.

To: "Smith, Barry" <phismith@xxxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: ONTAC Taxonomy-Ontology Development Discussion <ontac-dev@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
From: Chris Menzel <cmenzel@xxxxxxxx>
Date: Thu, 2 Feb 2006 10:03:39 -0600
Message-id: <20060202160339.GZ1125@xxxxxxxx>
On Thu, Feb 02, 2006 at 10:18:16AM -0500, Barry Smith wrote:
> At 09:57 AM 2/2/2006, you wrote:
> >On Thu, Feb 02, 2006 at 09:46:31AM -0500, Barry Smith wrote:
> >> Types have extensions, which are sets.
> >
> >Unless it is the type SET (among others).  There is no set of all sets,
> >according to our best theories of sets (as you know).
> 
> Types have extensions, which are sets (if you're lucky)    (01)

Ok, fair enough!  (We're usually lucky ;-)    (02)


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