Ontology is constructive. Ontology is explicit. These qualities represent an approach for language understanding that is the inverse of inference, which is the

Ontology is constructive. Ontology is explicit. These qualities represent an approach for language understanding that is the inverse of inference, which is the approach LLMs take. Somehow, humans manage to do both: we remember the narratives we have heard or experienced, and we hallucinate new ones. We seem to navigate that dataset in an implicit way, but we construct speech and writing in an explicit way.