- In metaphysics,
ontology is the
philosophical study of being. It
investigates what
types of
entities exist, how they are
grouped into categories, and how...
- 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...
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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...
- and
systems engineering,
ontology engineering is a
field which studies the
methods and
methodologies for
building ontologies,
which encomp****es a representation...
- 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...
- An
ontological argument is a
philosophical argument, made from an
ontological basis, that is
advanced in
support of the
existence of God. Such arguments...
-
ontology." The
history of
ontology in
Western philosophy is, in Heidegger's terms, ontical,
whereas ontology ought to
designate fundamental ontology....
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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...
