</A></LI>
</UL>
<!--X-Head-of-Message-End-->
<!--X-Head-Body-Sep-Begin-->
<hr>
<!--X-Head-Body-Sep-End-->
<!--X-Body-of-Message-->
<PRE>

While the debate over what status to give the Merged Ontology file rages on, I'd like to ask John Sowa (and anyone else who understands this) about some things that have been puzzling me in Sowa's upper ontology.

Sowa (in his KR book, page 61) gives Person as an example of Firstness and Mother as an example of Secondness.  So if a particular person (Mary Doe) is a mother