The name of a location is just a word. The location is a geographical
or political area, a spatial concept. No matter what you call it. This
is the problem with most discussions of ontology. Entities must be
defined beyond the verbage used to label them. (01)
Joyce W. Koeneman
Digital Librarian and Head Tech Services
National Transportation Library
202.366.4203
joyce.koeneman@xxxxxxx (02)
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Subject: RE: [ontac-forum] Surveyed Ontology "Library" Systems (03)
Responding to Roy (04)
>I would submit that a specific name of a place is a location. (05)
This cannot be right. "Oxford" is a name. Oxford is a place. The
former is a name of a location; it is not itself a location. (06)
>Examples of such
>places, relevant to the users of the place name (i.e., part of their
>relative vocabulary and their individual and related group contexts)
>this would be: home, the office, the school, Mary's, grandma's, the
>store, the target). These conceptual locations would have no
>global/larger/absolute meaning unless the vocabulary and contextual
>meaning of the user was known. (07)
By 'conceptual location' I think you mean locations specified via
phrases which have contextually dependent meanings. If so, then these
are of course not special kinds of locations -- any more than a
person whose name referred to by a nickname is a special kind of person. (08)
BS (09)
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