Non-Existent Objects and Epistemological Ontology

Functional ontology artifacts: Existent and emergent knowledge

Ontologies have primarily been promoted to facilitate interagent communication and knowledge reuse. There has not been as much emphasis on using ontologies to improve system quality. As a result, typically, ontology development, and verification and validation are treated as different stages in the life cycle. However, this paper argues that ontology design should include emergent knowledge tha...

Non-existent authors.

Authorship of bioscientific papers is a serious business. Most journals have policies that encourage transparency, making it clear who did what, but some authors take it less seriously than editors might like, and indexers don’t always get it right. Searching for common abbreviations (⇓) in PubMed (1809–2017), Embase (1974–2017), Ovid Medline (1946–2017), Philosopher’s Index (1966–2016), and Ps...

Expressivism about Reference and Quantification over the Non - Existent without

Can we believe that there are non-existent entities without commitment to Meinongian metaphysics? This paper argues we can. Let’s say we propose that, as appearances suggest, names like Pegasus refer to non-existent things. They are not, in other words, empty names, names without referents. Rather, they are terms that refer, and so have referents, but the referents do not exist. Moreover, at le...

The 6th WHO TAG Report: validation and "non-existent patients".

EOS: an epistemological ontology-driven system for knowledge processing

This thesis introduces EOS, a new approach to knowledge representation and processing that is based on Concept Theory, a unicategorical formalism we developed for defining semantically enriched formal ontologies. Generally, ontologies are a means for knowledge representation and reuse. They provide a shared understanding about a knowledge domain. EOS extends the scope of ontologies by offering ...