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In metaphysics, ontology is the philosophical study of being. It investigates what types of entities exist, how they are grouped into categories, and how...

normative ontology is possible (e.g., foundationalism and coherentism in philosophy, BFO and Cyc in artificial intelligence). Applied ontology is considered...

The Internet Philosophy Ontology Project (InPhO /ˈɪnfoʊ/) is a project of Indiana University's Cognitive Science Program funded by a grant from the National...

Social ontology is a branch of ontology. Ontology is the philosophical study of being and existence; social ontology, specifically, examines the social...

Applied ontology is the application of Ontology for practical purposes. This can involve employing ontological methods or resources to specific domains...

view that all is two). The term has different meanings in metaphysics, ontology, epistemology and logic. In metaphysics, it is the view that there are...

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...

Process philosophy, also ontology of becoming, or processism, is an approach in philosophy that identifies processes, changes, or shifting relationships...

An ontological argument is a deductive philosophical argument, made from an ontological basis, that is advanced in support of the existence of God. Such...

ontology." The history of ontology in Western philosophy is, in Heidegger's terms, ontical, whereas ontology ought to designate fundamental ontology....

post-Kantian philosophy's tendency to refuse "speak[ing] of the world without humans or humans without the world". Object-oriented ontology maintains that...

Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy. Concept at the Indiana Philosophy Ontology Project "Concept". Internet Encyclopedia of Philosophy. "Theory–Theory of Concepts"...

In ontology, the theory of categories concerns itself with the categories of being: the highest genera or kinds of entities according to Amie Thomasson...

In philosophy, a process ontology refers to a universal model of the structure of the world as an ordered wholeness. Such ontologies are fundamental ontologies...

an ontological commitment is an agreement to use the shared vocabulary in a coherent and consistent manner within a specific context. In philosophy, a...

from early modern philosophy distinguishes between general and special or specific metaphysics. General metaphysics, also called ontology, takes the widest...

Philosophy of space and time is the branch of philosophy concerned with the issues surrounding the ontology and epistemology of space and time. While...

philosophical problems belonging to diverse fields like epistemology, ontology, philosophy of mind, and ethics. Its founder was Edmund Husserl (1859–1938)....

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-...

development of object-oriented ontology. He is a central figure in the speculative realism trend in contemporary philosophy. Harman was born in Iowa City...