A Minimalist Upper Ontology

Gist is designed to have the maximum coverage of typical business ontology concepts with the fewest number of primitives and the least amount of ambiguity, known as a minimalist upper ontology. A title guaranteed to scare off just about everyone; if you’re not...

Necessary and Sufficient

What’s the real difference between necessary and sufficient? We just completed another training class, and like they say, “no one learns more than the instructor.” In this case the blindingly obvious and yet elusive pattern that revealed itself was...