Ontology Definition

ŏn-tŏlə-jē
ontologies
noun
The branch of metaphysics dealing with the nature of being, reality, or ultimate substance.
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A particular theory about being or reality.
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Ontology is an organizational system designed to categorize and help explain the relationships between various concepts of science in the same area of knowledge and research.
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It is a structural framework that allows the concepts to be laid out in a way that makes sense.
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It helps show the connections and relationships between concepts in a manner that is generally accepted by the field.
An example of ontology is when a physicist establishes different categories to divide existing things into in order to better understand those things and how they fit together in the broader world.
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Synonyms:
  • the nature of being
  • philosophy of existence
  • cosmology
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Other Word Forms of Ontology

Noun

Singular:
ontology
Plural:
ontologies

Origin of Ontology

  • First known English use 1663: Archelogia philosophica nova; or, New principles of Philosophy. Containing Philosophy in general, Metaphysicks or Ontology, Dynamilogy or a Discourse of Power, Religio Philosophi or Natural Theology, Physicks or Natural philosophy, by Gideon Harvey (1636/7-1702), London, Thomson, 1663.

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  • Originally Latin ontologia (1606, Ogdoas Scholastica, by Jacob Lorhard (Lorhardus)), from Ancient Greek ὤν (ōn, “on"), present participle of εἰμί (eimi, “being, existing, essence") + λόγος (logos, “account").

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  • Popularized as a philosophical term by German philosopher Christian Wolff (1679-1754).

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Ontology Sentence Examples

  • Hamilton, both of which in the view of Cousin are limited to psychology, and merely relative or phenomenal knowledge, and issue in scepticism so far as the great realities of ontology are concerned.

  • As we advance from the logic to the metaphysics and from that to his ontology, it becomes clear that the concepts are only " categories " or predicates of a reality lying outside of them, and there is an ultimate division between the world as the object or matter of thought and the thinking or moving principle which gives its life.

  • Not just beliefs change, but also the underlying ontology.

  • The workflow construction process itself is driven by task ontology so as to guarantee that the resulting workflow instances are enriched with consistent semantics.

  • Our main goal is extract knowledge from text to populate the ontology, and so alleviate the problem of ontology maintenance.

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OONONT

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