Hateful word of the day

[chickenfeet]

Can I just say that the word 'ontologizing' is vile and disgusting? It's bad enough that the IT world has hijacked 'ontology' to mean a controlled vocabulary crossed with an entity relationship diagram but to turn it into a verb is beyond unspeakable.

Comments

[krustukles.livejournal.com]

Thanks for explaining the IT definition. I had a tech person start talking aobut ontologies and as a former epistemologist, was totally confused. (Then he got talking about "developing ontologies" and I was like um, by definition, can you really develop an ontology per se?)

I await the day I hear "Ontogenizing is phylogenizing on a recapitular go-forward basis."

[chickenfeet2003.livejournal.com]

What's really funny is that most of the people who bang on about ontologies in the IT world have no idea that the word has another meaning.