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Language and Social Ontology

Theory and Society, 2008
Tondokument des Vortrags von Prof. Dr. John Searle, gehalten am 2012-05-30. John Searl war auf Einladung des germanistischen Sprachwissenschaftlers Prof. Dr. Andreas Gardt an der Universitat Kassel.
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The ontology of social groups

Synthese, 2016
Two major questions have dominated work on the metaphysics of social groups: first, Are there any? And second, What are they? I will begin by arguing that the answer to the ontological question is an easy and obvious ‘yes’. We do better to turn our efforts elsewhere, addressing the question: “What are social groups?” One might worry, however, about ...
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The Social Ontology Of Human Dignity

SSRN Electronic Journal, 2019
The Universal Declaration on Human Rights (1948) begins with the striking claim that the ‘recognition of the inherent dignity and of the equal and inalienable rights of all members of the human family is the foundation of freedom, justice and peace in the world’.
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Social Ontology and Documentality

2010
Social objects exist, the proof being the difference between thinking to promise something, and actually promising something: once you give your word, the promise keeps on existing, even in case you forget about it, or—as more frequently happens—you change your mind.
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An Ontology for Social Reality

2016
This book explores the complex domain of social reality, asking what this reality is, how it is composed and what its dynamics are in both theoretical and practical terms. Through the examination of some of the most important contemporary theories of social ontology, the book discusses the fundamentals of the discipline and lays the foundations for its
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An Upper Ontology for the Social Web

2012 IEEE/ACM International Conference on Advances in Social Networks Analysis and Mining, 2012
Ontologies modeling social graphs often use FOAF as an upper ontology. However, this approach has significant drawbacks. This paper analyzes the requirements for upper social ontologies and illustrates the shortcomings of FOAF and proposed extensions.
Jens Grabarske, Dominic Heutelbeck
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Hybrid ontologies and social semantics

4th IEEE International Conference on Digital Ecosystems and Technologies, 2010
Semantic Web, Social Web, and new economic challenges are causing major shifts in the pervasive fabric that the internet has become, in particular for the business world. The internet's new role as participatory medium and its ubiquity lead to dense tri-sortal communities of humans and businesses mixed with computer systems, and semantically ...
Meersman, Robert, Debruyne, Christophe
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On the Social Dynamics of Ontological Commitments

2010
The aim of my thesis is to provide a solution in which any stakeholder of a particular community (with a specific goal) can contribute to the ontology construction process, making the contribution of the "unproductive" long tail of the community relevant. Members in a community will describe their view and maintain a dialogue in natural language.
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The Social Ontology of Virtual Environments

The American Journal of Economics and Sociology, 2003
ABSTRACT .This paper analyzes the ontological structure of institutional and other social entities in virtual environments. The emphasis is on institutional reality, which consists of entities (objects, events, etc.) like money, contracts, and chess pieces, which are constituted in part through collective agreements.
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Algorithms, ontology, and social progress

Global Media and Communication, 2018
Recently, media and communication researchers have shown an increasing interest in critical data studies and ways to utilize data for social progress. In this commentary, I highlight several useful contributions in the International Panel on Social Progress (IPSP) report toward identifying key data justice issues, before suggesting extra focus on ...
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