Ontological Categories / / ed. by Javier Cumpa, Erwin Tegtmeier.

This volume is about ontological categories. The categories of an ontology are designed to classify all existents. They are crucial and characterize an ontology.

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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter DGBA Backlist Complete English Language 2000-2014 PART1
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Place / Publishing House:Berlin ;, Boston : : De Gruyter, , [2013]
©2011
Year of Publication:2013
Language:English
Series:Eide : Foundations of Ontology , 3
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Physical Description:1 online resource (234 p.)
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • Table of Contents
  • Introduction: An Old, but ever New, World The Old, but ever New, Problems
  • • CATEGORIES STUDIES •
  • 1. Categoriality: Three Disputes Over the Structure of the World
  • 2. Properties, Facts and Complexity
  • 3. Order, Direction, Logical Priority and Ontological Categories
  • 4. Ontological Categories: Why Four are Better than Two
  • 5. Attribute Instances: The First Ontic Category
  • 6. Ontological Categories, Latents and the Irrational
  • 7. Categories and Categorial Entities
  • 8. Including These Categories in One’s Ontology, Excluding Those Categories: Some Reflections on the Role of a Principle of Acquaintance in Ontology
  • Bibliography