 Fred Mon, 29 Jan 2001 on the same subject:
&gt; &gt; &gt;
&gt; &gt; &gt;"If by "means of articulation of domains of interest for subtending
&gt; &gt; &gt;ontologies", you mean that the upper-level ontology ought to
&gt; &gt; provide hooks
&gt; &gt; &gt;upon which middle-level and lower-level ontologies can be
&gt; &gt; positioned, I
&gt; &gt; &gt;agree with you, and I think the merged ontology, as it
&gt; &gt; stands, provides such
&gt; &gt; &gt;hooks.  It is, in part, a taxonomy of very general concepts,
