Ontological Categories

Published by De Gruyter 2011

Ontological Categories

Edited by: Javier Cumpa and Erwin Tegtmeier

Volume 3 in the series Eide

https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110329599

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Contents

About this book

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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Frontmatter Publicly Available Download PDF	i
Table of Contents Publicly Available Download PDF	v
Introduction: An Old, but ever New, World The Old, but ever New, Problems Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	7
• CATEGORIES STUDIES •
1. Categoriality: Three Disputes Over the Structure of the World Javier Cumpa Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	15
2. Properties, Facts and Complexity Herbert Hochberg Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	67
3. Order, Direction, Logical Priority and Ontological Categories Ingvar Johansson Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	89
4. Ontological Categories: Why Four are Better than Two Jonathan Lowe Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	109
5. Attribute Instances: The First Ontic Category Donald Mertz Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	127
6. Ontological Categories, Latents and the Irrational Roberto Poli Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	153
7. Categories and Categorial Entities Erwin Tegtmeier Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	165
8. Including These Categories in One’s Ontology, Excluding Those Categories: Some Reflections on the Role of a Principle of Acquaintance in Ontology Fred Wilson Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	181
Bibliography Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	225

(Deutsch)

Language: English
Publisher: De Gruyter
Pages
- Main content: 234
Keywords: Erkenntnistheorie; Ontologie; Philosophie

eBook

Published: May 2, 2013
ISBN: 9783110329599

Hardcover

Published: March 15, 2011
ISBN: 9783110329407