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Oct 4, 2004 · Introduction. Both logic and ontology are important areas of philosophy covering large, diverse, and active research projects. These two areas overlap from time to time and problems or questions arise that concern both. This survey article is intended to discuss some of these areas of overlap.
I. Definition. Ontology is the study of being. It focuses on several related questions: What things exist? (stars yes, unicorns no, numbers . . . yes?) What categories do they belong to? (are numbers physical properties or just ideas?) Is there such a thing as objective reality? What does the verb “to be” mean?
1. : a branch of metaphysics concerned with the nature and relations of being. Ontology deals with abstract entities. 2. : a particular theory about the nature of being or the kinds of things that have existence. ontologist. än-ˈtä-lə-jist. noun. Examples of ontology in a Sentence.
An ontology defines a common vocabulary for researchers who need to share information in a domain. It includes machine-interpretable definitions of basic concepts in the domain and relations among them. Why would someone want to develop an ontology? Some of the reasons are:
Abstract. “Ontology” is a philosophical discipline, a branch of philosophy that deals with the nature and the organization of being. The term “Ontology” has been introduced by Aristotle in Metaphysics, IV, 1. In the context of research on “Ontology”, philosophers try to answer questions “what being is?” and “what are the ...
Jan 1, 2009 · Publish with us. Policies and ethics. The word “ontology” is used with different senses in different communities. The most radical difference is perhaps between the philosophical sense, which has of course a well-established tradition, and the computational sense, which emerged in the recent...
In computer and information science, ontology is a technical term denoting an artifact that is designed for a purpose, which is to enable the modeling of knowledge about some domain, real or imagined.
