Ontology matching is a research area aimed at finding ways to make different ontologies interoperable. Solutions the problem have been proposed from disciplines, including databases, natural language processing, and machine learning. The role of foundational for ontology an important one, as they provide well-founded reference model that can be shared across domains. It multifaceted with room d...

CONTEXT National efforts are underway to classify a minimum set of public health services that all jurisdictions throughout the United States should provide regardless of location. Such a set of basic programs would be supported by crosscutting services, known as the "foundational capabilities" (FCs). These FCs are assessment services, preparedness and disaster response, policy development, com...

The construction of a systematic philosophical foundation for logic is a notoriously difficult problem. In Part One Isuggest that he problem is in large part methodological, having to do with the common philosophical conception f "providing a foundation". I offer an alternative to the common methodology which combines a strong foundational requirement (veridical justification) with the use of n...

In this article, we describe the theoretical foundations of the Ω-arithmetization. This method provides a multi-scale discretization of a continuous function that is a solution of a differential equation. This discretization process is based on the Harthong-Reeb line HRω. The HarthongReeb line is a linear space that is both discrete and continuous. This strange line HRω stems from a nonstandard...

This essay provides a brief introduction to the topic of presupposition, and then discuses three major approaches to this phenomenon, focusing on the answers which each approach gives to two foundational questions: What is presupposition? And how, or why, does it arise? 1. The phenomenon Consider sentence (1): (1) Jane has stopped drinking coffee in the evening. Among other things, this sentenc...

An approach for semantic interoperability among heterogeneous systems is to assist with the integration of foundational ontologies. In order to achieve this, we have selected three popular foundational ontologies DOLCE, BFO, and GFO, and their related modules. We perform ontology mediation (alignment, mapping, and merging) on these ontologies by aligning their ontology entities using tools, doc...

The development of an agreed-upon set of foundational ethical values for the field of public health is ongoing. In this paper we outline key elements of recent convergence on some basic moral precepts that drive public health. We suggest that three elements are particularly useful for anchoring public health practitioners' reflections on public health ethics: 1) the notions of "common" and "pro...