Explicit ontology construction is overused and implicit ontology construction is under-recognized. What made ontology click for me was that OOP is explicit ont

Explicit ontology construction is overused and implicit ontology construction is under-recognized. What made ontology click for me was that OOP is explicit ontology construction. Carving the world into similar types of things so we can use words to talk about referants is implicit ontology construction. The linguistic world is not isomorphic to the physical world but it has enough utility that we find it useful to confuse the map and territory. This confusion is one of the greatest sources of human conflict.