Wow! Obviously not too many at Davos (World Economic Forum) realize
that term in metaphysics has been
co-opted, for 20 years already, by information scientist to mean
something quite specific.  (01)
This is great, nonetheless!  (02)
regards. =ppy
--  (03)
On Fri, Jan 25, 2013 at 8:49 PM, Ali SH <asaegyn+out@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> Sort of pop interest, but thought people would appreciate it. The CEO of
> Yahoo, Marissa Mayer actually mentioned the word ontology at Davos, and it
> was reported ... in of all place ... the hollywood reporter.
>
> http://m.hollywoodreporter.com/news/davos-2013-yahoos-marissa-mayer-415324
>
> ===
> "...
> During the live stream outage, some people who were at the Mayer session
> tweeted that the Yahoo boss surprised the audience with the philosophical
> line: "You have to decide what the ontology of entities is." They said that
> the interviewer asked her to explain that, but nobody immediately shared her
> answer on Twitter. For those less interested in philosophy: Ontology is the
> philosophical study of the nature of being and existence.
> ..."
> ===
>
> Best,
> Ali  (04) 
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