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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 the
philosophy of religion, an
ontological argument is a
deductive philosophical argument, made from an
ontological basis, that is
advanced in support...
- 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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Guerrilla ontology is a
practice described by
author Robert Anton Wilson in his 1980 book The
Illuminati Papers as "the
basic technique of all my books...
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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
ontological turn is an
increased interest in
ontology within a
number of
philosophical and
academic disciplines during the
early 2000s. The ontological...
- The Gene
Ontology (GO) is a
major bioinformatics initiative to
unify the
representation of gene and gene
product attributes across all species. More specifically...
- 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-...
- In
formal semantics, an
ontological commitment of a
language is one or more
objects postulated to
exist by that language. The 'existence'
referred to...
- and
systems engineering,
ontology engineering is a
field which studies the
methods and
methodologies for
building ontologies,
which encomp****es a representation...
