Ontologies and Concepts. Two Proposals
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0 Introduction This workshop is meant to contain some interaction between computer science and philosophy. I am a philosopher, and I have got some space to try to make visible some views of my philosophical-ontological realism. According to my experience, I am sorry to say, people who work mainly with data assembled in interviews – be they anthropologists, sociologists, cultural-studies-people, or knowledge engineers – tend to become non-realists with respect both to social reality and to mind-independent nature. Even more sadly, their bad philosophical ontology seems now and then to have bad repercussions on their pure scientific or practical work, too. In order to fuel discussions around these issues, I will now put forward a little realist pamphlet.
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