EXPO An Ontology of Scientific Research
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The goal of science is to increase our knowledge of the natural world through the performance of experiments. Scientific knowledge should, ideally, be expressed in a standard formal logical language. Formal languages promote semantic clarity, which in turn supports the free exchange of scientific knowledge and simplifies scientific reasoning.
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