I came across an interesting factoid about Wikipedia:
If you go to
any Wikipedia page and click on the first link highlighted in blue and
repeat, you eventually get to the Philosophy page.
John
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This suggests to me that Philosophy features as the top node in the
Wikipedia ontology, and is thus viewed as the most general form of
knowledge.
In WordNet, if you repeatedly click on the hypernym of any noun, you will
eventually get to "entity", which is at the head of the noun ontology.
Other P
Orin,
That point is true of any hierarchy that has a unique top.
> This suggests to me that Philosophy features as the top
node in the
> Wikipedia ontology, and is thus viewed as the most
general form of
> knowledge.
WordNet was carefully
designed by linguists and lexicographers as an acy
