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Ontology   /ɑntˈɑlədʒi/   Listen
Ontology

noun
1.
(computer science) a rigorous and exhaustive organization of some knowledge domain that is usually hierarchical and contains all the relevant entities and their relations.
2.
The metaphysical study of the nature of being and existence.





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"Ontology" Quotes from Famous Books



... philosopher notice, unless it might be when the wind blew about the leaves of the large volume on his knees, and he had to find his place again. Then he would exclaim against the wind, shuffle the leaves till he got the right page, and settle to his reading. The book was a treatise on ontology; it was written by another philosopher, a friend of this philosopher's; it bristled with fallacies, and this philosopher was discovering them all, and noting them on the fly-leaf at the end. He was not going to review the book (as some might have thought from his behavior), or even ...
— Comedies of Courtship • Anthony Hope
... one of the finest things that was ever written on the Ontology of Being to paper after paper, and it was never used. He threatened the "Times" with legal proceedings if it did not ...
— Better Dead • J. M. Barrie


Words linked to "Ontology" :   organization, computing, metaphysics, system, computer science, arrangement, organisation, ontological


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