[Air-l] Origin of the term "Internet"

[Ellis Godard]

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

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From: James Whyte [mailto:whyte.james at yahoo.com] 
Sent: Sunday, April 01, 2007 3:30 PM
To: air-l at listserv.aoir.org; ellis.godard at 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