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Ontology
Ontology On*tol"o*gy, n. [Gr. ? the things which exist
(pl.neut. of ?, ?, being, p. pr. of ? to be) + -logy: cf.F.
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.
Meaning of ONTOLOGY from wikipedia
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Ontology is the
philosophical study of being. It is
traditionally understood as the
subdiscipline of
metaphysics focused on the most
general features of...
- In
information science, an
ontology encomp****es a representation,
formal naming, and
definitions of the categories, properties, and
relations between the...
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information science, an
upper ontology (also
known as a top-level
ontology,
upper model, or
foundation ontology) is an
ontology (in the
sense used in information...
- The Gene
Ontology (GO) is a
major bioinformatics initiative to
unify the
representation of gene and gene
product attributes across all species. More specifically...
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computer science and
artificial intelligence,
ontology languages are
formal languages used to
construct ontologies. They
allow the
encoding of
knowledge about...
- The Web
Ontology Language (OWL) is a
family of
knowledge representation languages for
authoring ontologies.
Ontologies are a
formal way to
describe taxonomies...
- and
systems engineering,
ontology engineering is a
field which studies the
methods and
methodologies for
building ontologies,
which encomp****es a representation...
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Social ontology is a
branch of
ontology.
Ontology is the
philosophical study of
being and existence;
social ontology, specifically,
examines the social...
- In philosophy, a core
ontology is a
basic and
minimal ontology consisting only of the
minimal concepts required to
understand the
other concepts. It must...
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process ontology refers to a
universal model of the
structure of the
world as an
ordered wholeness. Such
ontologies are
fundamental ontologies, in contrast...
