Cumpa / Tegtmeier Ontological Categories

1. Auflage 2013
ISBN: 978-3-11-032959-9
Verlag: De Gruyter
Format: PDF
Kopierschutz: Adobe DRM (»Systemvoraussetzungen)

E-Book, Englisch, Band 3, 234 Seiten

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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.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Cumpa, Javier

Tegtmeier, Erwin

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Philosophie Metaphysik, Ontologie

Inhaltsverzeichnis

1;Introduction: An Old, but ever New, World The Old, but ever New, Problems;7
2;• CATEGORIES STUDIES •;13
3;1. Categoriality: Three Disputes Over the Structure of the World By JAVIER CUMPA;15
4;2. Properties, Facts and Complexity By HERBERT HOCHBERG;67
5;3. Order, Direction, Logical Priority and Ontological Categories By INGVAR JOHANSSON;89
6;4. Ontological Categories: Why Four are Better than Two By JONATHAN LOWE;109
7;5. Attribute Instances: The First Ontic Category By DONALD MERTZ;127
8;6. Ontological Categories, Latents and the Irrational By ROBERTO POLI;153
9;7. Categories and Categorial Entities By ERWIN TEGTMEIER;165
10;8. Including These Categories in One’s Ontology, Excluding Those Categories: Some Reflections on the Role of a Principle of Acquaintance in Ontology By FRED WILSON;181
11;Bibliography;225