Hi all, Great references and food discussion!
But, I must admit that I do not believe in any universal truths and I do distrust anyone assuming to have one. So the point should be imho to question if BFO is useful? definitely, but universal truth???? No way.! Is use of ontology necessary for learning about reality? Of course. And can it help with information modeling as abstraction of reality ? That point was made in the on this list very heavily critiqued paper by Blobel, Brochhausen and myself a year ago. It is good to see the OpenEHR community look different and more positively at this aspect of two level modeling[1]. [1] http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S1386505613002013 Met vriendelijke groet / With kind regards, dr. William T.F. Goossen directeur Results 4 Care B.V. 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Today's Topics: 1. RE: book recommendation - basic formal ontology (BFO) for biomedicine (Koray Atalag) ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Message: 1 Date: Sat, 19 Sep 2015 12:17:55 +0000 From: Koray Atalag <[email protected]> To: For openEHR clinical discussions <[email protected]> Subject: RE: book recommendation - basic formal ontology (BFO) for biomedicine Message-ID: <b1ce708e5c614f4bb990e32cc5f03ad4dbf45...@uxcn10-6.uoa.auckland.ac.nz> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" I think within the timeframe stated by Tom we will definitely see these two worlds coming closer and producing some tangible benefits. Did you all notice an increase in research in this area these days? Just my quick 2 cents....still on travel Cheers, -koray ________________________________ From: openEHR-clinical [[email protected]] on behalf of Thomas Beale [[email protected]] Sent: Tuesday, 8 September 2015 7:14 p.m. To: For openEHR clinical discussions Subject: Re: book recommendation - basic formal ontology (BFO) for biomedicine Daniel, nice observations and thanks for the references - I had intended to circulate the first one as well, at some point. For my part, I think ontology will become useful in information modelling precisely for the reason that it offers ways of representing distinctions between real world referents and the things that refer to them (information entities). In other words, to help the IT sector understand 'how to model'. Historically it has been completely confused (I would go so far as to say not even conscious) of the difference between real world entities and events and the information items that document them. With no understanding of the in-principle divide between ontological and epistemological points of view (or equivalently of Popper's 3 worlds), information modelling can't possibly achieve much clarity or computability. So in agreeing with you, I would add that ontology-thinking is not a recipe for how to do information modelling, but it is useful for understanding what not to express in information models - mind-independent truths. - thomas On 08/09/2015 01:23, Daniel Karlsson wrote: Dear All, agree partly with Ian's assessment, i.e. about the messiness. While I much appreciate what I have read, and I've had much help from earlier texts from the authors (as I'm sure I will from this book), there is in the medical informatics community a widespread belief that the position held by (some part of) the BFO community is undisputed and sort-of final. There are still issues which requires careful consideration, especially regarding information artefacts and the is-about relationship [1, 2], but also about e.g. dispositions [3], and functions [4]. Additionally, while ontologies deal with what is universally true, it is my belief that universal truth takes, and should take, the back seat compared to user needs and practicality in information modelling. First-world (using Popper's ontology [5]) ontologies are outcomes of our understanding of the physical world and evolve as science evolves (at least good ones). Information models and other second-third-world ontologies are always constructs and, like with fictional characters, nothing can be discovered by examining those models in addition to what has been explicitly stated. For this reason, ontology as a method isn't as helpful for information modellers as it is for others. 1. https://www.researchgate.net/publication/266021648_An_Ontological_Analysis_of_Reference_in_Health_Record_Statements 2. http://www.amazon.com/Aboutness-Carl-G-Hempel-Lecture/dp/0691144958 3. http://www.amazon.com/Dispositions-Stephen-Mumford/dp/0199259828 4. http://www.amazon.com/Functions-Biological-Artificial-Worlds-Philosophical/dp/026211321X 5. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Popper%27s_three_worlds /Daniel -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... 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