ause I don't see that we're trying to get straight
&gt;about "how the world is".  As I see it, we're trying to create a conceptual
&gt;schema that should, insofar as possible, support every conceptual model that
&gt;anyone would ever want to develop.

Doesn't that seem almost obviously impossible, just on the face of 
it, if you agree (as you seem to have done) that these various models 
have incompatible conceptual schemes?

&gt; In other words, we're not trying to
&gt;stake claims on the nature of the wor