Re: [ontolog-forum] Dispositions and powers for applied ontologies?

["Obrst, Leo J." <lobrst@xxxxxxxxx>]

Thanks, Barry. I cited the only BFO paper on this topic that I knew of: are there others?

 

The reason I ask is that the farther I go down the stack of physical sciences/ontologies, the more I see motivation for these notions. And their relations to agency/intentionality.

 

I have a slew of metaphysics papers, but wondered about their applied ontology application.

 

Thanks,

Leo

 

From: ontolog-forum-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:ontolog-forum-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Barry Smith
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Leo

Dispositions play a central role in Basic Formal Ontology, which serves as basis for many other ontologies, especially in biology and medicine. See http://www.ifomis.org/bfo/

BS

 

On Mon, Jan 7, 2013 at 9:26 PM, Obrst, Leo J. <lobrst@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

Dispositions and powers (from metaphysics) are sometimes used for scientific theories/ontologies. Does anyone actually use these analyses to develop applied ontologies? I see it used, e.g., in some analyses of quantum theory.

 

The only paper I know of on this topic is:

 

Arp, R. & Smith, B. (2008). Function, role, and disposition in basic formal ontology. In Proceedings of Bio-Ontologies Workshop (ISMB 2008) (pp. 45–48). Available from Nature Precedings at: http://hdl.handle.net/10101/npre.2008.1941.1.

 

Do you know of others?

 

Thanks,

Leo

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