Applied ontology : an introduction / [edited by] Katherine Munn, Barry Smith.
Material type: TextSeries: Metaphysical research ; Bd. 9.Publisher: Frankfurt : Ontos Verlag ; [2008]Distributor: Piscataway, NJ : [Distributed in] North and South America by Transaction Books, [2008]Copyright date: ©2008Description: 1 online resource (342 pages) : illustrationsContent type:- text
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Introduction: What is ontology for? / Katherine Munn -- Bioinformatics and philosophy / Barry Smith and Bert Klagges -- What is formal ontology / Boris Hennig -- A primer on knowledge management and ontological engineering / Pierre Grenon -- New desiderata for biomedical terminologies / Barry Smith -- The benefits of realism: A Realist Logic with Applications / Barry Smith -- A theory of granular partitions / Thomas Bittner and Barry Smith -- Classifications / Ludger Jansen -- Categories: The Top-Level Ontology / Ludger Jansen -- The classification of living beings / Peter Heuer and Boris Hennig -- Ontological relations / Ulf Schwarz and Barry Smith -- Four kinds of "Is_A" relation / Ingvar Johansson -- Occurrents / Boris Hennig -- Bioinformatics and biological reality / Ingvar Johansson.
Includes bibliographical references (pages [311]-327) and index.
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