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- DictionaryOn·tol·o·gy/änˈtäləjē/
noun
- 1. the branch of metaphysics dealing with the nature of being.
- 2. a set of concepts and categories in a subject area or domain that shows their properties and the relations between them: "what's new about our ontology is that it is created automatically from large datasets"
In information science, an ontology encompasses a representation, formal naming, and definitions of the categories, properties, and relations between the concepts, data, or entities that pertain to one, many, or all domains of discourse. More simply, an ontology is a way of showing the properties of a subject area and how they are related, by ...
Ontology studies the things, while metaphysics studies the rules. III. Ontology vs. Epistemology. Ontology and metaphysics both get confused with epistemology, but epistemology is easier to separate out. Epistemology is the study of knowledge, of how we know what we know. Whereas ontology and metaphysics are about reality, epistemology is about ...
ontology: [noun] a branch of metaphysics concerned with the nature and relations of being.
Mar 16, 2023 · Ontology is metaphysics at its most abstract — concerned with the study of existence and reality itself — and so it is foundational to much philosophical thought. Etymologically, ontology is derived from the two Greek words “onto” and “logos”, translated as “the study of being”. In the field of ontology, philosophers engage in ...
The Artificial-Intelligence literature contains many definitions of an ontology; many of these contradict one another. For the purposes of this guide an ontology is a formal explicit description of concepts in a domain of discourse (classes (sometimes called concepts)), properties of each concept describing various features and attributes of the concept (slots (sometimes called roles or ...
Dec 8, 2023 · Ontology is the theory of objects and their ties. It provides criteria for distinguishing different types of objects (concrete and abstract, existent and nonexistent, real and ideal, independent and dependent) and their ties (relations, dependencies and predication). We can distinguish: a) formal, b) descriptive and c) formalized ontologies.
Aug 17, 2022 · Natural language ontology is the study of the ontology (ontological categories, structures, and notions) implicit in natural language. Natural language ontology is part of “descriptive metaphysics” to use Strawson’s term (1959), as opposed to what Fine (2017a) calls “foundational metaphysics”, metaphysics whose interest is in what there ultimately is.
