Reply to Andriy Vasylchenko’s Review of Formal Ontology and Conceptual Realism

?Logic and Formal Ontology: Is the Final Formal Ontology Possible

Musa Akrami AbstractMany philosophers and logicians have contemplated the relationship between ontology and logic. The author of this paper, working within a Bolzanoan-Husserlian tradition of studying both ontology and logic, considers ontology as the science of the most general features of beings and the most general relations among them. He considers logic as the science concernin...

Formal ontology, conceptual analysis and knowledge representation

The purpose of this paper is to defend the systematic introduction of formal ontological principles in the current practice of knowledge engineering, to explore the various relationships between ontology and knowledge representation, and to present the recent trends in this promising research area. According to the "modelling view" of knowledge acquisition proposed by Clancey, the modeling acti...

General Formal Ontology (gfo) a Foundational Ontology for Conceptual Modelling

Realism bei Frege: Reply to Burge

Frege is celebrated as an arch-Platonist and an arch-realist. He is renowned for claiming that truths of arithmetic are eternally true and independent of us, our judgments and our thought; that there is a ‘third realm’ containing nonphysical objects that are not ideas. Until recently, there were few attempts to explicate these renowned claims, for most philosophers thought the clarity of Frege’...

Scientific realism and ontology

Economists customarily talk about the ‘realism’ of economic models and of their assumptions and make descriptive and prescriptive judgements about them: this model has more realism in it than that, the realism of assumptions does not matter, and so on. This is not the way philosophers mostly use the term ‘realism’ thus there is a major terminological discontinuity between the two disciplines. T...