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Ontology of Art

2010
Ontological questions are questions about existence: Which things are truly existent? Into which fundamental categories do they fall? One seeks, not just an inventory of reality, but a map of it, one that could help to structure and navigate one’s other philosophical concerns.
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What Is an Ontology?

2009
The word "ontology" is used with diðerent senses in diðerent com- munities. The most radical diðerence is perhaps between the philosophical sense, which has of course a well-established tradition, and the computational sense, which emerged in the recent years in the knowledge engineering community, starting from an early informal definition of ...
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Performing ontology

Social Studies of Science, 2014
Ontology, and in particular, the so-called ontological turn, is the topic of a recent themed issue of Social Studies of Science (Volume 43, Issue 3, 2013). Ontology, or metaphysics, is in philosophy concerned with what there is, how it is, and forms of being.
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Scientific Ontology and Speculative Ontology

2013
Abstract A contrast is drawn between two approaches to ontology: scientific ontology, which is constrained by scientific knowledge, and speculative ontology, which is not. Three primary arguments are provided against speculative ontology: its factual falsity, its appeal to intuitions as a source of knowledge, and its lack of attention to
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The Ontology of Interface

This book proposes the original philosophical theory of the Ontology of Interface, aiming to offer a perspective on being that differs from traditional ontologies centered on "substance" or "wholeness". The interface is the necessary condition and fundamental mechanism of the existence of entities, while the category is the basic unit through which ...
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Ontology and Ontologies

International Philosophical Quarterly, 1963
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Ontology

2009
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