that memory.  And what 'image', what
| remembrance?  Plainly, the one which is the mental equivalent of the word
| 'homme' -- in short, its interpretant.  Whatever a word addresses then or
| 'stands to', is its interpretant or identified symbol.  ...

In a recent post John Sowa has reminded us of the criteria for any
adequate ontology, as propounded by the NCTIS T2 Committee.  These
criteria are based on  the ability to define terms used in major scientific
fields,
such as physics, chemistry, and biology an