Do Mountains Exist? Towards an Ontology of Landforms

Do mountains exist? Towards an ontology of landforms

The authors begin the paper with the question `Do mountains exist?' They show that providing an answer to this question is surprisingly difficult and that the answer that one gives depends on the context in which the question is posed. Mountains clearly exist as real correlates of everyday human thought and action, and they form the archetype for geographic objects. Yet individual mountains lac...

Towards an Ontology of Landforms

The paper begins with the question “Do mountains exist?” It shows that providing an answer to this question is surprisingly difficult, and that the answer which one gives depends on the context in which the question is posed. Mountains clearly exist as real correlates of everyday human thought and action, and they form the archetype for geographic objects. Yet individual mountains lack many of ...

Does Ontology Exist?

Towards an Ontology of Schizophrenia

The paper presents an Ontology of Schizophrenia (OS) that is designed to provide a formal representation of schizophrenia-related entities crucial to the treatment and study of schizophrenia. OS is developed in accordance with the OBO (Open Biomedical Ontology) Foundry principles and constructed in compliance with Basic Formal Ontology (BFO) as its upperlevel ontology. It uses mid-level and dom...

Do Black Holes Exist?

Proof that black holes exist will likely require confirmation of the existence of event horizons. The common assumption that the mere existence of large compact masses proves the case for black holes is an unwarranted extrapolation of General Relativity into a strong-field regime where it has not been adequately tested. Neither the large compact masses of galactic nuclei nor the massive compact...