Realist Representation of the Medical Practice: an Ontological and Epistemological Analysis
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Realist ontologies organize knowledge by strict adherence to philosophical principles, ensuring robustness and coherence. According to those principles, only entities empirically verifiable can be represented. Our study aimed to analyze medical records to evaluate which kinds of entities should be represented for physicians. We classified the entities and found several entities that cannot be represented in realist ontologies. After due analysis, results suggest that a categorization that distinguishes reality from medical knowledge about reality and observations under both of them are useful to describe entities present in medical records.
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