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:the universal quantification rule (why you can't say 'Tylenol pill' is a 'pill which cures headache')
:the universal quantification rule (why you can't say 'Tylenol pill' is a 'pill which cures headache')
:the no-multiple-inheritance rule (asserted vs. inferred)
:the no-multiple-inheritance rule (asserted vs. inferred)
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Ontology Pitfall Scanner: https://oops.linkeddata.es/catalogue.jsp
Ontology Pitfall Scanner: https://oops.linkeddata.es/catalogue.jsp
Definitions and axioms in first-order logic must be kept separate from each other: the definition of a term x is designed to be the shortest and logically simplest specification of necessary and sufficient conditions for being and instance of x. The axioms specify additional distinguishing marks which are seen as holding for all such instances. The advantages of this strategy are: 1. definitions are easy to understand and easy to apply, 2. definitions are more stable in the sense that new kinds of x might be discovered, or might evolve, which falsify one or other axiom, but still satisfy the definition.

Latest revision as of 14:10, 17 December 2024

Ontology illustration
BFO+
stasis
process profile
capability
system
GDC role / GDC function
realism
Top-Level Ontology and hub-spokes approach
universal / instance
singular nouns
mass nouns
specific dependence
generic dependence GDC, ICE
copyable patterns, concretizations
dispositions and qualities
capabilities and functions
roles
the all-some rule
single inheritance
the Aristotle definition of substance rule
the universal quantification rule (why you can't say 'Tylenol pill' is a 'pill which cures headache')
the no-multiple-inheritance rule (asserted vs. inferred)


Ontology Pitfall Scanner: https://oops.linkeddata.es/catalogue.jsp

Definitions and axioms in first-order logic must be kept separate from each other: the definition of a term x is designed to be the shortest and logically simplest specification of necessary and sufficient conditions for being and instance of x. The axioms specify additional distinguishing marks which are seen as holding for all such instances. The advantages of this strategy are: 1. definitions are easy to understand and easy to apply, 2. definitions are more stable in the sense that new kinds of x might be discovered, or might evolve, which falsify one or other axiom, but still satisfy the definition.