 one version of an underlying
body of standards.  Several people on this list have further expanded on
this point by pointing to the possibility of growing and self-maintaining
ontological structures permitting a variety of users and uses.  These draw
on methods that go well beyond the merge-and-winnow approach, and cannot be
adeuqately covered merely by making explicit the 'syntactic' choices and
axioms of the reference object.

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This has been a very useful and lively discussion