The Cornucopia of Formal-Ontological Relations

The paper presents a new method for generating typologies of formal-ontological relations. The guiding idea is that formal relations are those sorts of relations which hold between entities which are constituents of distinct ontologies. We provide examples of ontologies (in the spirit of Zemach'...

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Published inDialectica Vol. 58; no. 3; pp. 279 - 296
Main Authors Smith, Barry, Grenon, Pierre
Format Journal Article
LanguageEnglish
Published Oxford, UK Blackwell Publishing Ltd 01.09.2004
Blackwell-Wiley Publishing
Subjects
Concept of being
Connected regions
Domain ontologies
Drug dependence
Granularity
Lungs
Neoplasia
Ontology
Philosophical subject
Signatures
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Summary:The paper presents a new method for generating typologies of formal-ontological relations. The guiding idea is that formal relations are those sorts of relations which hold between entities which are constituents of distinct ontologies. We provide examples of ontologies (in the spirit of Zemach's classic "Four Ontologies" of 1970), and show how these can be used to give a rich typology of formal relations in a way which also throws light on the opposition between three- and four-dimensionalism.
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ArticleID:DLTC279
ISSN:0012-2017
1746-8361
DOI:10.1111/j.1746-8361.2004.tb00305.x