ontology

Tanımlar (İngilizce)

1. isim The branch of metaphysics that addresses the nature or essential characteristics of being and of things that exist; the study of being qua being.
2. isim In a subject view, or a world view, the set of conceptual or material things or classes of things that are recognised as existing, or are assumed to exist in context, and their interrelations; in a body of theory, the ontology comprises the domain of discourse, the things that are defined as existing, together with whatever emerges from their mutual implications.

   “Meronym: taxonomy”

3. isim The theory of a particular philosopher or school of thought concerning the fundamental types of entity in the universe.

   “The answer to the controversial question of whether Aristotle's ontology includes non-substantial particulars, then, is that it does.”

4. isim A logical system involving theory of classes, developed by Stanislaw Lesniewski (1886-1939).
5. isim A structure of concepts or entities within a domain, organized by relationships; a system model.