Ontological categories / Javier Cumpa & Erwin Tegtmeier (eds.).

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Cumpa, Javier.

Contributor:

Tegtmeier, Erwin.

Series:

Eide ; v. 3.

Eide : foundations of ontology ; v. 3

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Ontology.

Categories (Philosophy).

Physical Description:

1 online resource (234 p.)

Place of Publication:

Frankfurt : Ontos Verlag, 2011.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

This volume is about ontological categories. The categories of an ontology are designed to classify all existents. They are crucial and characterize an ontology.

Contents:

Frontmatter

Table of Contents

Introduction: An Old, but ever New, World The Old, but ever New, Problems

• CATEGORIES STUDIES •

1. Categoriality: Three Disputes Over the Structure of the World / Cumpa, Javier

2. Properties, Facts and Complexity / Hochberg, Herbert

3. Order, Direction, Logical Priority and Ontological Categories / Johansson, Ingvar

4. Ontological Categories: Why Four are Better than Two / Lowe, Jonathan

5. Attribute Instances: The First Ontic Category / Mertz, Donald

6. Ontological Categories, Latents and the Irrational / Poli, Roberto

7. Categories and Categorial Entities / Tegtmeier, Erwin

8. Including These Categories in One's Ontology, Excluding Those Categories: Some Reflections on the Role of a Principle of Acquaintance in Ontology / Wilson, Fred

Bibliography

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references.

ISBN:

3-86838-099-X

3-11-032959-X

OCLC:

851972171