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Note: A couple of meta-ontological choices for ontological architectures

1 June 2002LOA (LADSEB-CNR), Technical Report 06/02, June 2002, Padova, ItalyLOA (LADSEB-CNR), Technical Report 06/02, June 2002, Padova, Italy

Chris Partridge (BORO Solutions)

Abstract

Major metaphysical meta-ontological choices, whether made consciously nor not, influence the overall shape of an ontological architecture. This brief note argues that the development of upper ontologies should include a characterisation of their architecture in terms of these choices and their impact. How this might work is illustrated here with examples of two major choices, these are: Perdurantism versus Endurantism and Presentism versus Eternalism.

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Major metaphysical meta-ontological choices, whether made consciously nor not, influence the overall shape of an ontological architecture. This brief note argues that the development of upper ontologies should include a characterisation of their architecture in terms of these choices and their impact. How this might work is illustrated here with examples of two major choices, these are: Perdurantism versus Endurantism and Presentism versus Eternalism.

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