<div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:verdana,sans-serif">Thanks, Owen, for sharing this link.  In February, through crazy circumstances, I've been invited to Switzerland to CERN for some privileged tours.  I'm taking my 15-year old granddaughter with me so that she can explain it all.</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:verdana,sans-serif"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:verdana,sans-serif">Here's a link I'd like to share with Friam--very different thoughts for the New Year.  <a href="https://breakermag.com/trapped-at-sea-with-cryptos-nouveau-riche/">https://breakermag.com/trapped-at-sea-with-cryptos-nouveau-riche/</a></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:verdana,sans-serif">Sending warm holiday wishes to all. </div></div></div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr">On Thu, Dec 27, 2018 at 9:22 AM Owen Densmore <<a href="mailto:owen@backspaces.net">owen@backspaces.net</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left-width:1px;border-left-style:solid;border-left-color:rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr"><span class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:small;color:rgb(0,0,0)">I was reading a science article which used "ontology" in a way I was not familiar with.</span><div><span class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:small;color:rgb(0,0,0)">     </span><a href="https://medium.com/@sasha.manu95/an-overview-of-dark-matter-9aa5d024d65d" target="_blank">https://medium.com/@sasha.manu95/an-overview-of-dark-matter-9aa5d024d65d</a></div><div><blockquote style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left-width:1px;border-left-style:solid;border-left-color:rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex" class="gmail_quote">One of the oldest projects in science involves constructing a fundamental ontology.</blockquote><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:small;color:rgb(0,0,0)"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:small;color:rgb(0,0,0)">So I Googled "ontology" and got a definition along with a graph of usage over time!</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:small;color:rgb(0,0,0)"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:small;color:rgb(0,0,0)">So apparently their use was the second, the "spanning set" of concepts within a field .. maybe primarily scientific/technical.</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:small;color:rgb(0,0,0)"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:small;color:rgb(0,0,0)"><div><img src="cid:ii_jq6vie5s0" alt="Snap.12.27.18-10.15.54.jpg" style="margin-right: 0px;" width="548" height="776"><br></div><div><br></div><div>   -- Owen</div></div><br></div></div>
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