Ontological Categories

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De Gruyter (2011)
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This volume is about ontological categories. The categories of an ontology are designed to classify all existents. They are crucial and characterize an ontology.

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9783110329407   9783110329599   386838099X   3110329409

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10.1515/9783110329599
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Introduction: An Old, but ever New, World The Old, but ever New, Problems

1. Categoriality: Three Disputes Over the Structure of the World

2. Properties, Facts and Complexity

3. Order, Direction, Logical Priority and Ontological Categories

4. Ontological Categories: Why Four are Better than Two

5. Attribute Instances: The First Ontic Category

6. Ontological Categories, Latents and the Irrational

7. Categories and Categorial Entities

8. Including These Categories in One’s Ontology, Excluding Those Categories: Some Reflections on the Role of a Principle of Acquaintance in Ontology

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