Exploiting a Perdurantist Foundational Ontology and Graph Database for Semantic Data Integration

Objects Within contemporary philosophy there is an ongoing debate relating to the subjects of realism, materialism and physicalism and there is no agreement on a standard account of how to distinguish between abstract and concrete objects (Rosen, 2014). Philosophers who commit to abstract objects are often termed platonists whilst philosophers who deny their existence are termed nominalists (Rosen, 2014). As abstract objects are defined as those objects that have no spatial extent and have no causal powers, Partridge, et al. (2013) assert that as nothing can be known about them or their existence, ontological commitment to abstract objects should be avoided.