Opinions, conventions, fashions, and styles of terminological meaning might well be ontological. But opinion, convention, fashion, and style regarding tie width or shirt collar design concerns a lower level of abstraction than ontology. Also, I question whether definitional boundaries create, rather than reflect, biases and whether biases (whatever that means in this context) are negative, wrong, etc. -eg --------------------- From: James Whyte [mailto:whyte.james@yahoo.com] Sent: Sunday, April 01, 2007 3:30 PM To: air-l@listserv.aoir.org; ellis.godard@csun.edu Subject: Re: [Air-l] Origin of the term "Internet" I am speaking to biases created by definitional boundaries. I might add that it parallels your admonition for others to define their terms in a recent posting. If I might paraphrase: "Natural", "occuring" and "conflicts" impose different inferences (sanctioned) depending on the definitions used. James