ontology

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Often, the term ontology is used to cover both ABox and TBox statements (which, I argue, only makes the understanding of the 'ontology' concept more difficult).

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  1. noun The branch of metaphysics that deals with the nature of being.

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  • His cosmology and his ontology are a philosophical exposition of the Jewish conception of God's relation to the universe, his ethics and his psychology of the Jewish conception of man's relation to God. —  Philo-Judaeus of Alexandria
  • Yet in many of your writings you also come across as quite pragmatist in your views about ontology, meaning and truth. —  fragments of consciousness
  • The basic idea being that ontology is always constructed through a political battle, a conflict over what exists. —  the accursed share
  • Noesis replaces the simple word-or-phrase matching search used by most search engines with a discipline-specific semantic "ontology," or knowledge base. —  innovations-report
  • To tackle the problem of huge intraconcept visual diversity for the image concepts at the higher levels of the concept ontology, a novel hierarchical boosting algorithm is developed to learn their ensemble classifiers hierarchically. —  CiteULike: Everyone's library
 

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  1. = French ontologie = Spanish ontologia = Portuguese Italian ontologia, from New Latin ontologia (Clauberg, died 1655), from Greek ω῎ν (ὀντ-), being (neuter plural τα\ ὁντα, existing things), + -λογία, from λέγειν, speak: see -ology.
 

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/ɑnˈtɑlədʒi/
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