Formal ontology / edited by Roberto Poli and Peter Simons.
Formal ontology / edited by Roberto Poli and Peter Simons.
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Dordrecht ; Boston : Kluwer Academic Publishers ; Norwell, MA : Sold and distributed in the U.S.A. and Canada by Kluwer Academic Publishers, c1996.
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N111/31
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English
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viii, 293 p. : ill. ; 25 cm.
Contents
Res, Ens and Aliquid / Roberto Poli -- Conceptual Realism as a Formal Ontology / Nino B. Cocchiarella -- The Way of Truth / Jerzy Perzanowski -- Existence and Correspondence-to-Fact / Fred Sommers -- A World of States of Affairs / David M. Armstrong -- A Formal Ontology of Situations / Mieczyslaw Om...
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Dordrecht ; Boston : Kluwer Academic Publishers ; Norwell, MA : Sold and distributed in the U.S.A. and Canada by Kluwer Academic Publishers, c1996.
Date Published
c1996.
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"Formal ontology combines two ideas, one originating with Husserl, the other with Frege: that of ontology of the formal aspects of all objects, irrespective of their particular nature, and ontology pursued by employing the tools of modern formal disciplines, notably logic and semantics. These two traditions have converged in recent years and this i...
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Formal ontology / edited by Roberto Poli and Peter Simons.
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Nijhoff international philosophy series ; v. 53.
Papers presented at the International Summer School in Philosophy and Artificial Intelligence on "Formal Ontology", Bolzano, Italy, July 1-5, 1991, Central European Institute of Culture.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
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c1996.
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N111/31
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ISBN
079234104X
079234104X (alk. paper)
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111
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991004481469702626
