Relevant to whether the hot/cold/wet/dry system is a good or a bad idea, from our perspective, is that doctors don’t currently use people’s star signs for diagnosis. Bogus ontologies can be identified by how they promise to usefully replace more detailed levels of description—i.e., provide a useful abstraction that carves reality at the joints—and yet don’t actually do this, from the standpoint of the cultures they’re being sold to.
Relevant to whether the hot/cold/wet/dry system is a good or a bad idea, from our perspective, is that doctors don’t currently use people’s star signs for diagnosis. Bogus ontologies can be identified by how they promise to usefully replace more detailed levels of description—i.e., provide a useful abstraction that carves reality at the joints—and yet don’t actually do this, from the standpoint of the cultures they’re being sold to.