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Sent: 09 March 2001 18:05
To: Chris Partridge; sowa@bestweb.net; standard-upper-ontology@ieee.org
Subject: Re: SUO: RE: Criteria that an ontology must satisfy


Chris,

I don't understand why you are so devoted to the terms
"perdure" and "endure" or their corresponding "-isms".
I just checked the two books by Peter Simons:  his 1987
book, _Parts:  A Study in Ontology_, and his 1992 book,
_Philosophy and Logic in Central Europe from Bolzano to
Tarski_.  Neither book mentions 