Ontology

Ontology Links

What is an Ontology? Short and long answers from Tom Gruber of Stanford University, Knowledge Systems Lab.
A Framework for Understanding and Classifying Ontology Applications A good paper on the various kinds and uses of ontology in real-world applications (PDF).
Holes Holes are an interesting case-study for ontologists and epistemologists. From the Stanford Encyclopedia.
Achille C. Varzi - Home Page Achille Varzi has published extensively in the field of Ontology. Notably, he has researched, along with Roberto Casati, the previously neglected study of holes as objects.
The Ontology of Cyberspace The Ontology of Cyberspace
The Enterprise Ontology An attempt to systematize a business grammar and syntax.
Descriptive and Formal Ontology The development of ontology from philosophy to knowledge engineering.
Center for Applied Ontology The Center for Applied Ontology brings together members of various disciplines interested in extending the tools of descriptive ontology for proscriptive purposes.
Buffalo Ontology Site Information on ontology, on the history of ontology, and on contemporary ontology and its applications.
Tropes An article describing tropes in The Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy, by John Bacon.
The Identity of Indiscernibles A principle of analytic ontology first explicitly formulated by Leibniz. It states that no two distinct substances exactly resemble each other.

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