> First, there is no universal "semantic". The meaning of things is ambiguous, and given a broad enough pool of people and cultural contexts, it becomes nigh impossible to converge on a single consistent model for individual terms and concepts in practice

It sounds like the Semantic Web failed because we tried treating a longstanding (and possibly unresolvable) ontological problem as a straightforward and technical one.

I don’t really follow academic philosophy, but is it known these days if such categorisation problems are even “solvable” in the general case?