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One more thing we can do...<BR> We can ask our vendors to allow us to create and exploit a marketplace of recognitions of occasions when multiple communities are talking about the same subject.<BR> Despite what almost every ontologist, system vendor, etc. may think, it is a demonstrated fact that recognitions of subject-sameness can be expressed orthogonally to, and compatibly with, all universes of discourse in which anything is expressed about any subject.<BR> Each such recognition is a wormhole between universes of discourse.<BR> Such recognitions need not compromise the integrity of information expressed in terms of any universe of discourse.<BR>

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