Both information models and ontologies promise advantages in promoting interoperability. Recent research has shown the benefits of rigorous modelling in assuring largescale consistency. In previous work we have demonstrated the feasibility of remodelling the OpenEHR information ontology using realist ontologies, such as IAO. We here present an OWL version of the care-entry model, showing that m...

This paper is the first from a series of papers that aim to develop a theory of multi-method M&S approach. The aim of this paper is to develop ontological basis for multi-method M&S approach. The first part of this paper discusses terms related to the use of more than a single modeling & simulation (M&S) method. This is to show the ontological ambiguity currently present within the M&S field in...

While polysemy is a form of ambiguity that can complicate natural language processing, it is also a rich lexical resource that yields useful insights into the mapping between words and concepts. WordNet, a comprehensive lexical knowledge-base of English word meanings, is replete with instances of polysemy, but also contains many instances of homonymy, and fails to distinguish between both kinds...

Mainly working with Paul Tillich’s lesser known works and one unpublished text, this article seeks to examine how his ontological approach the doctrine of God humanity inevitably must interact an existential human predicament, which is characterized by estrangement separation from essential being beings. On view, theology include ambiguity consisting in use essentialist perspective existentiali...

I claim that the question of whether chemistry is reduced to quantum mechanics is more ambiguous and multi-faceted than generally supposed. For example, chemistry appears to be both reduced and not reduced at the same time depending on the perspective that one adopts. Similarly, I argue that some conceptual issues in quantum mechanics are ambiguous and can only be laid to rest by embracing para...

As is well known, there are two crucial arguments in the realism debate. According to the no-miracles argument, it would be a miracle if our best scientific theories – namely, those which successfully predict novel phenomena – were not true (or approximately true). So, we should take theories that yield novel predictions as being true or, at least, approximately so. Clearly, considerations of t...

Kurt Gödel’s ontological argument for God’s existence has been formalized and automated on a computer with higher-order automated theorem provers. From Gödel’s premises, the computer proved: necessarily, there exists God. On the other hand, the theorem provers have also confirmed prominent criticism on Gödel’s ontological argument, and they found some new results about it. The background theory...

The thesis of methodological individualism in social science is commonly divided into two different claims – explanatory individualism and ontological individualism. Ontological individualism is the thesis that facts about individuals exhaustively determine social facts. Initially taken to be a claim about the identity of groups with sets of individuals or their properties, ontological individu...

In recent years, there has been a growing interest in approaches that employ foundational ontologies as theoretical tools for analyzing and improving conceptual modeling languages. However, some of these approaches do not always make explicit their ontological commitments. This leads to situations where criticisms resulting from the specific ontological choices made by a particular approach are...

Ontological pluralism is the view that there are different ways of being. Historically, being aligned with ontological categories. This paper about to investigate why such a connection, and how it should be understood. suffers from an objection, according which collapses into monism, i.e., only one way be. Admitting categories can save this objection if ground