Download or read book Universal Ontology of Geographic Space Semantic Enrichment for Spatial Data written by Podobnikar, Toma and published by IGI Global. This book was released on 2012-03-31 with total page 305 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A universal approach to the ontology of geographic space has already been, and is going to be, a comprehensive task for establishing more effective spatial models. The concept of a universal spatial ontology should be independent of location, culture, and time. It should be fundamental and universal in the same way that the number p defines the ratio between the diameter and the circumference of a circle. The term universal therefore means all-embracing and for general propose. Universal Ontology of Geographic Space: Semantic Enrichment for Spatial Data aims to escalate the current scope of research to support the development of semantically interoperable systems of geographic space. This reference will aid university lecturers and professors, students, researchers, developers of spatial applications.
Download or read book Reality Universal Ontology and Knowledge Systems Toward the Intelligent World written by Abdoullaev, Azamat and published by IGI Global. This book was released on 2008-04-30 with total page 346 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "This book provides cutting-edge research on reality, its nature and fundamental structure, represented both by human minds and intelligent machines.--striving to describe a world model and ontology; organized human knowledge; powerful reasoning systems; and secure communication interoperability between human beings and computing reasoning systems promising the profound revolution in human values and ways of life"--Provided by publisher.
Download or read book Universal Representation and the Ontology of Individuation Volume 5 written by Gyula Klima and published by Cambridge Scholars Publishing. This book was released on 2011-09-22 with total page 110 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: There is broad agreement in the medieval tradition that we conceive things in the world owing to the transmission of intelligible content through various media that culminates in the concept by which something in the world is cognitively present for us. Yet how the intelligible content is transmitted along with the nature of the ultimate object of cognition provoked ceaseless debate. The first three essays in Universal Representation, and the Ontology of Individuation consider these issues as they play out in the metaphysics and natural philosophy of Avicenna, Averroes, Thomas Aquinas, Ockham and others. The last three essays turn to the metaphysical problem of the nature of the principle of individuation. Moderate realists believe in the existence of immanent general natures such as humanity and equinity, whereby individuals are members of diverse natural kinds. Accordingly, moderate realists such as Aquinas, Henry of Ghent and Duns Scotus need to investigate the nature of the individuating principle by which members of one and the same natural kind differ from one another. Nominalists, for their part, need not concern themselves with any principle of individuation as, for them, all reality is individual, there being no immanent universals; but this release comes at the cost of a new set of epistemological problems.
Download or read book Edmund Husserl The cutting edge phenomenological method philosophical logic ontology and philosophy of science written by Rudolf Bernet and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2005 with total page 400 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This collection makes available, in one place, the very best essays on the founding father of phenomenology, reprinting key writings on Husserl's thought from the past seventy years. It draws together a range of writings, many otherwise inaccessible, that have been recognized as seminal contributions not only to an understanding of this great philosopher but also to the development of his phenomenology. The four volumes are arranged as follows: Volume I Classic essays from Husserl's assistants, students and earlier interlocutors. Including a selection of papers from such figures as Heidegger, Merleau-Ponty, Sartre, Ricoeur and Levinas. Volume II Classic commentaries on Husserl's published works. "Covering the Logical Investigations," " Ideas I," " Phenomenology of Internal Time Consciousness," "" ""and" Formal and Transcendental Logic." Volumes III and IV Papers concentrating on particular aspects of Husserl's theory including: Husserl's account of mathematics and logic, his theory of science, the nature of phenomenological reduction, his account of perception and language, the theory of space and time, his phenomenology of imagination and empathy, the concept of the life-world and his epistemology.
Download or read book Universal Representation and the Ontology of Individuation written by Gyula Klima and published by . This book was released on 2011 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "There is broad agreement in the medieval tradition that we conceive things in the world owing to the transmission of intelligible content through various media that culminates in the concept by which something in the world is cognitively present for us. Yet how the intelligible content is transmitted along with the nature of the ultimate object of cognition provoked ceaseless debate. The first three essays ... consider these issues as they play out in the metaphysics and natural philosophy of Avicenna, Avrroes, and Thomas Aquinas, Ockham and others. The last three essays turn to the metaphysical problems of the nature of the principle of individuation. Moderate realists believe in the existence of immanent general natures such as humanity and equinity, whereby individuals are members of diverse natural kinds. Accordingly, moderate realists such as Aquinas, Henry of Ghent and Duns Scotus need to investigate the nature of the individuating principle by which members of one and the same natural kind differ from one another. Nominalists, for their part, need not concern themselves with any principle of individuation as, for them, all reality is individual, there being no immanent universals, but this release comes at the cost of a new set of epistemological problems"--Publisher's description, back of dust jacket.
Download or read book Hierarchical Emergent Ontology and the Universal Principle of Emergence written by Vladimír Havlík and published by Springer Nature. This book was released on 2022-04-12 with total page 264 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book offers a new look at emergence in terms of a hierarchical emergent ontology. Emergence is recognised as a universal principle, as universal as the principle of evolution. This is achieved by setting out the ontological criteria of emergence and such criteria’s various roles. The traditional dichotomies are overcome, e.g., the synchronic and diachronic perspectives are unified, allowing a single, universal principle of emergence to be applied across various fields of science. As exemplars of its practical utility in both explanation and prediction, this new approach is applied to three different scientific areas: cellular automata, quantum Hall effects, and the neural network of the mind. It proves that the resulting metaphysics of hierarchical emergent ontology plays a fundamental role in unifying science, an impossible task under classical reductionism.
Download or read book Universal In the Realm of the Sensible written by Dorothea Olkowski and published by Edinburgh University Press. This book was released on 2007-03-02 with total page 280 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Universal (In the realm of the sensible): Beyond Continental Philosophy proposes a radical, new philosophical system that moves from ontology to ethics. Dorothea Olkowski develops the concept of an ontological unconscious, a connection arising from our sensible relation to the world that conditions encounters with the environment and with others. This fundamental ontology rethinks the space-time relations opened by Irigaray's notion of the 'interval,' Bergson's 'recollection,' Merleau-Ponty's idea of the 'flesh' and Deleuze's 'plane of immanence'. Writing in an original style, inspired by literature and the arts, Olkowski locates a 'realm of the senses', a field of vulnerability, felt as pleasures and pains. This presents an aesthetic sense of something universal to all human kind, as well as to the organic and inorganic world. In addition to this proposal for a wider ontology, the relation between traditional ontologies and politics is examined as a means of opening politics beyond a no exit or limit cycle. Instead a multiplicity of self-organized, emergent perspectives emerges, eliminating the need for the connections, conjunctions, and disjunctions of the Kantian paradigm at work in contemporary continental philosophy.This is a timely, controversial and important book that will contribute enormously to the study of Deleuze and Continental Philosophy.
Download or read book Psychological and Transcendental Phenomenology and the Confrontation with Heidegger 1927 1931 written by Edmund Husserl and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 1997-10-31 with total page 542 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Thomas Sheehan and Richard E. Palmer The materials translated in the body of this volume date from 1927 through 1931. The Encyclopaedia Britannica Article and the Amsterdam Lectures were written by Edmund Hussed (with a short contribution by Martin Heideg ger) between September 1927 and April 1928, and Hussed's marginal notes to Sein und Zeit and Kant und das Problem der Metaphysik were made between 1927 and 1929. The appendices to this volume contain texts from both Hussed and Heidegger, and date from 1929 through 1931. As a whole these materials not only document Hussed's thinking as he approached retirement and emeri tus status (March 31, 1928) but also shed light on the philosophical chasm that was widening at that time between Hussed and his then colleague and protege, Martin Heidegger. 1. The Encyclopaedia Britannica Article Between September and early December 1927, Hussed, under contract, composed an introduction to phenomenology that was to be published in the fourteenth edition ofthe Encyclopaedia Britannica (1929). Hussed's text went through four versions (which we call Drafts A, B, C, and D) and two editorial condensations by other hands (which we call Drafts E and F). Throughout this volume those five texts as a whole are referred to as "the EB Article" or simply "the Article. " Hussed's own final version of the Article, Draft D, was never published of it appeared only in 1962.
Download or read book Universality in Set Theories written by Manuel Bremer and published by Walter de Gruyter. This book was released on 2013-05-02 with total page 125 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The book discusses the fate of universality and a universal set in several set theories. The book aims at a philosophical study of ontological and conceptual questions around set theory. Set theories are ontologies. They posit sets and claim that these exhibit the essential properties laid down in the set theoretical axioms. Collecting these postulated entities quantified over poses the problem of universality. Is the collection of the set theoretical entities itself a set theoretical entity? What does it mean if it is, and what does it mean if it is not? To answer these questions involves developing a theory of the universal set. We have to ask: Are there different aspects to universality in set theory, which stand in conflict to each other? May inconsistency be the price to pay to circumvent ineffability? And most importantly: How far can axiomatic ontology take us out of the problems around universality?
Download or read book The Four Category Ontology written by E. J. Lowe and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2006 with total page 237 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: E. J. Lowe sets out and defends his theory of what there is. His four-category ontology is a metaphysical system that recognizes two fundamental categorial distinctions which cut across each other to generate four fundamental ontological categories. The distinctions are between the particular and the universal and between the substantial and the non-substantial. The four categories thus generated are substantial particulars, non-substantial particulars, substantial universals andnon-substantial universals. Non-substantial universals include properties and relations, conceived as universals. Non-substantial particulars include property-instances and relation-instances, otherwise known as non-relational and relational tropes or modes. Substantial particulars include propertiedindividuals, the paradigm examples of which are persisting, concrete objects. Substantial universals are otherwise known as substantial kinds and include as paradigm examples natural kinds of persisting objects.This ontology has a lengthy pedigree, many commentators attributing it to Aristotle on the basis of certain passages in his apparently early work, the Categories. At various times during the history of Western philosophy, it has been revived or rediscovered, but it has never found universal favour, perhaps on account of its apparent lack of parsimony as well as its commitment to universals. In pursuit of ontological economy, metaphysicians have generally preferred to recognize fewerthan four fundamental ontological categories. However, Occam's razor stipulates only that we should not multiply entities beyond necessity; Lowe argues that the four-category ontology has an explanatory power unrivalled by more parsimonious systems, and that this counts decisively in its favour. He shows thatit provides a powerful explanatory framework for a unified account of causation, dispositions, natural laws, natural necessity and many other related matters, such as the semantics of counterfactual conditionals and the character of the truthmaking relation. As such, it constitutes a thoroughgoing metaphysical foundation for natural science.
Download or read book Business Systems Analysis with Ontologies written by Green, Peter F. and published by IGI Global. This book was released on 2005-03-31 with total page 378 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "This book shows systems analysts and business analysts how ontological thinking can help them clarify requirements analysis tasks in business systems"--Provided by publisher.
Download or read book Universal Ontology written by Max Vishnevskiy and published by . This book was released on 2020-08-26 with total page 414 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: List of references: Barrett J. Everett's relative-state formulation of quantum mechanics; Berto F. Impossible worlds; Berto F. How to Sell a Contradiction; Bricker P. Absolute actuality and the plurality of worlds; Bruce C. Schrödinger's Rabbits; Byrne P. The Many Worlds of Hugh Everett III; Cameron R.P. Why Lewis's analysis of modality succeeds in its reductive; Carlson E. and Olsson E.J. The presumption of nothingness; Chaitin G.J. The Unknowable; Conee E. Modal realism, counterpart theory, and the possibility of multiversal rectitude; De Rosset L. Possible worlds I: Modal realism; De Witt B. Quantum mechanics and reality; Divers J. Possible Worlds; Dorr С. How to be a modal realist; Edwards P. Why; Everett H. Relative state formulation of quantum mechanics; Everett H. The Theory of the Universal Wave Function; Feser E. Greene on Nozick on nothing; Franrks M.R. The Universe and Multiple Reality; Gale G. Cosmological fecundity: Theories of multiple universes; Gribbin J. In Search of the Multiverse; Grover S. Cosmological fecundity; Grünbaum A. The Poverty of Theistic Cosmology; Grunbaum A. Why is there a world at all, rather than just nothing?; Hawthorne J. A Metaphysician looks at the Everett interpretation; Heller M. The immorality of modal realism, or; Holt J. Why Does the World Exist?; Lewis D. Counterfactuals. Oxford: Blackwell; Lewis D. How many lives has Schrodinger's cat?; Lewis D. On the Plurality of Worlds; Lovell A.C.B. The Individual and the Universe; Lynds P. Why there is something rather than nothing; Mackie J.L. Truth, Probability and Paradox; Many Worlds? Everett, Quantum Theory, and Reality; McDaniel K. Modal realisms; NozickR. Philosophical Explanations; Plantinga A. Essays in the Metaphysics of Modality; Sauchelli A. Concrete possible worlds and counterfactual conditionals; Sheehy P. Theism and modal realism; Sorensen R. Nothingness; Tappenden P. Identity and probability in Everett's multiverse; Tegmark M. Many lives in many worlds; Tegmark M. Our Mathematical Universe; Tipler F.J. Nonlocality as evidence for a multiverse cosmology; Tryon E. Is the universe a vacuum fluctuation?; Tuboly A. Are there possible worlds? Lewis and Everett on the plurality of worlds; Unger P. Minimizing arbitrariness: toward a metaphysics of infinitely many isolated concrete worlds; Vaidman L. Many-worlds interpretation of quantum mechanics; Van Invagen P. Why is there anything at all?; Vilenkin A. Birth of inflationary universes; Wallace D. The Emergent Multiverse; Weatherson B. David Lewis; Wilson A. Modal Metaphysics and the Everett Interpretation; Witherall A. The fundamental question; Byrne P. Plurality of worlds of Hugh Everett; Born M. Continuity, determinism, reality; Weinberg S. Dreams of the Ultimate Theory; V.P. Vizgin The idea of a plurality of worlds; Vilenkin A. The world of many worlds. Physicists in search of other universes; Gapchenko S.Yu. On the multiplicity of worlds; Green B. Hidden Reality: Parallel Worlds and the Deep Laws of the Cosmos; Greenstein J., Zayonts A. Quantum challenge. Modern research into the foundations of quantum mechanics; Goodman N. Ways of creating worlds; Deutsch D. The structure of reality; Kaku M. Parallel Worlds; Karpenko A.S. Philosophical principle of completeness; Lovejoy A. The Great Chain of Being; Lebedev Yu.A. The many-sided universe. Everett problematics; Leibniz G.V. Principles of nature and grace based on reason; Leibniz G.V. On the deep origin of things; Lukasiewicz Jan. On the principle of contradiction in Aristotle; Mensky M.B. Consciousness and quantum mechanics; Nietzsche F. Beyond Good and Evil. Prelude to the philosophy of the future; Heidegger M. Introduction to Metaphysics; Heidegger M. Being and Time; Chalmers D. The Conscious Mind; Epstein M. Philosophy of the Possible.
Download or read book Universality in Set Theories written by Manuel Bremer and published by . This book was released on 2010 with total page 125 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Main description: The book discusses the fate of universality and a universal set in several set theories. The book aims at a philosophical study of ontological and conceptual questions around set theory. Set theories are ontologies. They posit sets and claim that these exhibit the essential properties laid down in the set theoretical axioms. Collecting these postulated entities quantified over poses the problem of universality. Is the collection of the set theoretical entities itself a set theoretical entity? What does it mean if it is, and what does it mean if it is not? To answer these questions involves developing a theory of the universal set. We have to ask: Are there different aspects to universality in set theory, which stand in conflict to each other? May inconsistency be the price to pay to circumvent ineffability? And most importantly: How far can axiomatic ontology take us out of the problems around universality?
Download or read book Universality in Set Theories written by Manuel Bremer and published by Ontos Verlag. This book was released on 2010 with total page 125 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The book discusses the fate of universality and a universal set in several set theories. Set theories are ontologies. They posit sets and claim that these exhibit the essential properties laid down in the set theoretical axioms. Collecting these postulated entities quantified over poses the problem of universality. Is the collection of the set theoretical entities itself a set theoretical entity? What does it mean if it is, and what does it mean if it is not? To answer these questions involves developing a theory of the universal set.
Download or read book The Intimate Universal written by William Desmond and published by Columbia University Press. This book was released on 2016-11-29 with total page 521 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: William Desmond sees religion, art, philosophy, and politics as essential and distinctive modes of human practice, manifestations of an intimate universality that illuminates individual and social being. They are also surprisingly permeable phenomena, and by observing their relations, Desmond captures notes of a clandestine conversation that transforms ontology.
Download or read book Existence written by Peter van Inwagen and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2014-04-10 with total page 271 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is a collection of Peter van Inwagen's recent essays on ontology and meta-ontology.
Download or read book Formal Ontology in Information Systems written by S. Borgo and published by IOS Press. This book was released on 2018-09-28 with total page 278 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: FOIS is the flagship conference of the International Association for Ontology and its Applications (IAOA). Its interdisciplinary research focus lies at the intersection of philosophical ontology, linguistics, logic, cognitive science, and computer science, as well as in the applications of ontological analysis to conceptual modeling, knowledge engineering, knowledge management, information-systems development, library and information science, scientific research, and semantic technologies in general. This volume presents the proceedings of FOIS 2018, held in Cape Town, South Africa, from 19-21 September. It was the 10th edition and 20th anniversary of the conference series. The volume contains 19 papers grouped into 4 sections: Foundations (7 papers), Agents and Properties (4 papers), Methods and Tools (4 papers), and Applications (4 papers). Regarding the applications of ontologies, a broad spectrum of areas is covered, including in particular biology and medicine, IoT, engineering and linguistics. Formal Ontology in Information Systems - Proceedings of the 10th International Conference (FOIS 2018) will be of interest to researchers from all disciplines with an interest in formal ontology.
