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We hope to advance the Semantic Web by doing research within the boundaries of the known. Isn’t that all we can do? It seems hard to break out of the boundaries of the known, but no, I don’t think it is good enough, and that we need to challenge this view, and that we should look to philosophy of science and natural science for inspiration. My fundamental assumption, which I hope you will agree...