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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...
- 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...
- In the
philosophy of religion, an
ontological argument is a
deductive philosophical argument, made from an
ontological basis, that is
advanced in support...
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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 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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process ontology refers to a
universal model of the
structure of the
world as an
ordered wholeness. Such
ontologies are
fundamental ontologies, in contrast...
- the
distinction between ontical and
ontological, or
between beings and
being as such. He
labeled this the "
ontological difference." It is from this distinction...
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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...