Applied Ontology An Introduction
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Katherine Munn, Barry Smith
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Applied Ontology An Introduction
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Walter de Gruyter GmbH& Co.KG
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9783110324860
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Metaphysical ResearchISSN
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Ontology is the philosophical discipline which aims to understand how things in the world are divided into categories and how these categories are related together. This is exactly what information scientists aim for in creating structured, automated representations, called 'ontologies,' for managing information in fields such as science, government, industry, and healthcare. Currently, these systems are designed in a variety of different ways, so they cannot share data with one another. They are often idiosyncratically structured, accessible only to those who created them, and unable to serve as inputs for automated reasoning. This volume shows, in a non-technical way and using examples from medicine and biology, how the rigorous application of theories and insights from philosophical ontology can improve the ontologies upon which information management depends.
Table of Contents
5
Introduction: What is Ontology for?
7
Chapter 1: Philosophy and BiomedicalInformation Systems
21
Chapter 2: What is Formal Ontology?
39
Chapter 3: A Primer on KnowledgeRepresentation and OntologicalEngineering
57
Chapter 4: New Desiderata forBiomedical Terminologies
83
Chapter 5: The Benefits of Realism:A Realist Logic with Applications
109
Chapter 6: A Theory of GranularPartitions
125
Chapter 7: Classifications
159
Chapter 8: Categories:The Top-Level Ontology
173
Chapter 9: The Classification of LivingBeings
197
Chapter 10: Ontological Relations
219
Chapter 11: Four Kinds of Is_a Relation
235
Chapter 12: Occurrents
255
Chapter 13: Bioinformatics and BiologicalReality
285
References
311
Index
329
