Ontology

Meaning

Noun

●

In Philosophy:

The

of

that

the

or

characteristics

of being and of things that

; the study of being

being.

●

In Philosophy:

In a

, or a

, the set of

or

things or

of things that are

as

ing, or are

to

in

, and their

; in a body of

, the

the

domain of discourse

, the things that are

as

ing,

whatever

from their

implications.

●

In Philosophy:

The

of a particular

or

school of thought

the

types of

in the universe.

●

In Logic:

A

of

, developed by Stanislaw Lesniewski (1886-1939).

●

In Computer science & Information science:

A structure of

or

within a

,

by

; a system model.

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