Com­par­a­tive ontol­ogy asserts that humans already have ontolo­gies, and that machine ontolo­gies are both pro­jec­tions of human ontolo­gies (those of the numerati) and mate­r­i­al agents that inter­vene in the ongo­ing repro­duc­tion of ontolo­gies (every­one else’s).  Devel­op­ers of ontolo­gies for the web of linked data would do well to under­stand the nature of human ontolo­gies, as…