Stephen Downes

Knowledge, Learning, Community
When studying philosophy I eschewed ontology in favour of epistemology. It seemed to me that ontology was arbitrary - that there could be (and, indeed, should be) numerous ways to describe the world. Clay Shirky reaches the same conclusion about online information. "The URL represents the inversion of the traditional scale, making the mere label and not the mighty ontology the key site of organizational value." Short description linked to an audio presentation.

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