[ontolog-forum] Thing and Class

["Richard H. McCullough" <rhm@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

This seems the perfect way to introduce myself,

since I originated this topic on semantic-web@xxxxxx.

 

After a couple of hours of browsing around Ontolog,

I feel at home here.  I wish I had known about Ontolog

years ago!  For the past six years, I have been making

myself infamous with W3C, because they don't want

to discuss epistemology and ontology.

 

On to the question of terminology.  I favor the terms

used by Ayn Rand (Intro. to Objectivist Epistemology),

with a couple of additions.  This is my "tabula rasa"

ontology (before generalizing characteristics of

entities to characteristics of existents).

 

existent

    group  # abstract Entity

    entity # physical Entity

    characteristic  # property

        part        # single entity, separable

        attribute   # single entity, inseparable

        relation    # multiple entity

        action      # single entity, space, time

        interaction # multiple entity, space, time

    proposition

 

The terms that I added were

    group

    interaction

    proposition

 

To address the subject line, I favor "existent"

instead of "thing", and "concept" instead of "class".

"concept" is a special kind of "group".

 

 

P.S. I am looking forward to some future discussions

of "context".  The epistemological foundation of

my knowledge representation language, mKR, is

context and definitions. In a very real sense,

I can say that mKR "implements" the theories of

Ayn Rand and Keith Devlin.

 

Dick McCullough
Ayn Rand do speak od mKR done;
mKE do enhance od Real Intelligence done;
knowledge := man do identify od existent done;
knowledge haspart proposition list;
http://mKRmKE.org/

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