 motivated, and formalized.

Note that this proposal obviously reflects a top-down approach, but I 
believe it can be adapted also to the middle-out approach advocated 
by Mike Uschold, as long as we are ready to create a new upper-level 
branch while generalizing from a certain middle-level view that turns 
out to be incompatible with the previously developed ontology.

-- Nicola



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Nicola Guarino
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