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Ontology   /ɑntˈɑlədʒi/   Listen
Ontology

noun
1.
(computer science) a rigorous and exhaustive organization of some knowledge domain that is usually hierarchical and contains all the relevant entities and their relations.
2.
The metaphysical study of the nature of being and existence.





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"Ontology" Quotes from Famous Books



... centuries ago—when our ancestors were grovelling in the lowest depths of primitive savagery—the rishis of India were engaged in perhaps the highest self-propelled flights of religious speculation the world has ever known and were working out a philosophy, or more correctly a system of ontology, which is today the wonder and ...
— India's Problem Krishna or Christ • John P. Jones


Words linked to "Ontology" :   metaphysics, organization, ontological, system, computer science, computing, arrangement, organisation


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