Look up: Ontology

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   Ontology
   In philosophy, ontology is the branch of metaphysics that deals with the nature of being.
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   ontology
   specification of the concepts of a domain and their relationships, structured to allow computer processing and reasoning. As the nature of the relationships can be specified as part of the ontology, many more types of relationship are possible than in a thesaurus.
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   ontology
   [n] - the metaphysical study of the nature of being and existence
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   ontology
   Branch of philosophy concerned with the study of being. In the 20th century, the German philosopher Martin Heidegger distinguished between an `ontological` enquiry (an enquiry into `Being`)...
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   ontology
   1. (philosophy) A systematic account of Existence. 2. (artificial intelligence) (From philosophy) An explicit formal specification of how to represent the objects, concepts and other entities that are assumed to exist in some area of interest and the relationships that hold among them. For AI systems, what 'exists' is that which can be represented....
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   Ontology
   a branch of philosophy concerned with what can be said to exist. This can be distinguished from epistemology which concerns how we may know what exists.
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   Ontology
   On·tol'o·gy noun [ Greek ... the things which exist (pl.neut. of ..., ..., being, present participle of ... to be) + - logy : confer French ontologie .] That department of the science of metaphysics which investigates and explains the nature and essential properties and relations of all beings, as such, or the principles and causes of being.
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   ontology
   <study> That department of the science of metaphysics which investigates and explains the nature and essential properties and relations of all beings, as such, or the principles and causes of being. ... Origin: Gr. The things which exist (pl.neut. Of, being, p.pr. Of to be): cf.F. Ontologie. ... Source: Websters Dictionary ... (01 Mar 1998) ...
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   ontology
   noun the metaphysical study of the nature of being and existence
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    Ontology
    `Ontology` is a study of conceptions of reality and the nature of being. In philosophy, `ontology` (from the Greek nominative : `being`, genitive : `of being` (participle of : `to be`) and -λογία: `science`, `study`, `theory`) is the study of being or existence and forms the basic subject matter of metaphysics. It seeks to describe or posit the basic categories and relationships of being or existence to define entities and types of entities ...
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    Ontology
    • (n.) That department of the science of metaphysics which investigates and explains the nature and essential properties and relations of all beings, as such, or the principles and causes of being.
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    ontology
    (from the article `Leniewski, Stanisaw`) ...distinctive and original contribution of Leniewski consists in the construction of three interrelated logical systems, to which he gave the names, ... ...he sought to formalize the theory by embedding it within a broader body of logical theory. This theory comprised two parts: protothetic, a l...
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    ontology
    the theory or study of being as such; i.e., of the basic characteristics of all reality. Though the term was first coined in the 17th century, ... [12 related articles]
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    ontology
    ontology, ontological, ontologically, ontologist The philosophical study of the nature of being.
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    ontology
    A traditional branch of metaphysics that deals with problems of being, existence, inner nature, meaning, etc. It is fundamental to problems involving normality and disease, individuality, responsibility, and the analysis of values. In recent years, it has been slowly assuming a place as a branch of medicine proper.
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    ontology
    ontology: see metaphysics.
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    Ontology
    (Gr. on, being + logos, logic) The theory of being qua being. For Aristotle, the First Philosophy, the science of the essence of things. Introduced as a term into philosophy by Wolff. The science of fundamental principles, the doctrine of the categories. Ultimate philosophy; rational cosmology. Syn. with metaphysics. See Cosmology, First Principle...
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