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Here is my attempt to find the roots of “the ontological problem” in AI research identified by Daniel Kayser at ICCS’98. I reconstruct just enough of C.S. Peirce’s “scientific philosophy” to suggest how pragmatism responds to fundamental (metaphysical) issues in Knowledge Representation, and to indicate how Kayser’s notion of “variable ontology” for “conceptual adaptation” might be interpreted as pragmatic ontology, a model methodology for Conceptual Structures research and development. At least, here may be an introduction to further investigations?
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Keeler, M. (2000). Pragmatically Yours,. In: Ganter, B., Mineau, G.W. (eds) Conceptual Structures: Logical, Linguistic, and Computational Issues. ICCS 2000. Lecture Notes in Computer Science(), vol 1867. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/10722280_6
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