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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
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 Gene
Ontology (GO) is a
major bioinformatics initiative to
unify the
representation of gene and gene
product attributes across all species. More specifically...
- 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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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 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...
- In the
philosophy of religion, an
ontological argument is a
deductive philosophical argument, made from an
ontological basis, that is
advanced in support...
