Mathematicians study shapes, structures and patterns. However, there are shapes, structures and patterns within the body and practice of mathematics that are not the direct objects of mathematical study. Rather, they are part of the explanation of how mathematical study is possible, and thus demand the attention of epistemologists and phenomenologists as well as mathematicians. Partial philosop...

Abstract This chapter introduces an idea that is gaining increasing prominence in discussions of the Anthropocene: pluriverse. We argue very condition Anthropocene can serve as opportunity to give serious consideration ontological thesis pluriverse, namely there are many kinds worlds, some which may allow for “social” relations constituted by “more-than-human” beings. In first part chapter, we ...

in classical philosophy, a collection of suppositions that man attempts to discover and explains their truth on the basis of conformity criterion is called ma‘rifa (intuitive knowledge). the desirable ma‘rifa is one which possesses the two qualities of objectivity and necessity. such ma‘rifa should undoubtedly be conceived in a process that both guarantees the reflection of the realities of mat...

An important issue in the newborn discipline of ontological engineering is the construction of libraries of ontologies which are designed for maximum reusability. Van Heijst et. al. suggested that a central part of ontology libraries is the deenition of what they called a core ontology, containing elements that are as generic and method-independent as possible. However, their speciication of ho...

2. Principles of ontology design Ontology is an ancient term used by philosophers to mean “a particular theory about the nature of being or reality” (Woolf 1981). Ontology design starts with creating a conceptualization of the domain: one that specifies the possible objects or entities about which knowledge can be expressed (the fundamental categories), and the relationships that can hold among...

The Unified Medical Language System and the Gene Ontology are among the most widely used terminology resources in the biomedical domain. However, when we evaluate them in the light of simple principles for wellconstructed ontologies we find a number of characteristic inadequacies. Employing the theory of granular partitions, a new approach to the understanding of ontologies and of the relations...

This paper explores the essential features of recovery and the need for an existential approach in psychiatry. The biopsychosocial model often fails to sufficiently validate the existential suffering of patients. We review the major principles of recovery and the philosophical and psychiatric principles of existentialism. The ontological or intrinsic existential issues of death, isolation, free...

Referent Tracking (RT) advocates the use of instance unique identifiers to refer to the entities comprising the subject matter of patient health records. RT promises many benefits to those who use health record data to improve patient care. To further the adoption of the paradigm we provide an illustration of how data from an EHR application needs to be decomposed in order to make it accord wit...