dismissed" by the recent Pat's messages... I believe it would be 
*essential*, for the purpose of the SUO, to be able to include 
linguistically-motivated domain ontologies in the SUO framework. In 
some cases, this may imply to adopt ontological commitments that are 
just incompatible with those useful for, say, nuclear physics 
ontology...

&gt;I would say that Cyc falls somewhere in the middle on this issue and 
&gt;I suspect that will be the result for the SUO as well - a largely 
&gt;common ontology wi