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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...
- The Gene
Ontology (GO) is a
major bioinformatics initiative to
unify the
representation of gene and gene
product attributes across all species. More specifically...
- The
Disease Ontology (DO) is a
formal ontology of
human disease. The
Disease Ontology project is
hosted at the
Institute for
Genome Sciences at the University...
- The Web
Ontology Language (OWL) is a
family of
knowledge representation languages for
authoring ontologies.
Ontologies are a
formal way to
describe taxonomies...
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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...
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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...
- In philosophy, the term
formal ontology is used to
refer to an
ontology defined by
axioms in a
formal language with the goal to
provide an
unbiased (domain-...
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Metaontology or meta-
ontology is the
study of the
field of
inquiry known as
ontology. The goal of meta-
ontology is to
clarify what
ontology is
about and how...
- the
distinction between ontical and
ontological, or
between beings and
being as such. He
labeled this the "
ontological difference." It is from this distinction...
