Book chapter
IS-A diversified
We reconsider the nature and formal properties of the class inclusion relation, IS-A, from the point of view of information modeling and engineering of formal ontologies. In particular we review approaches to the elusive notion of intensionality. We then conduct an analysis adopting a metalogic setup where classes and properties are reified.
This approach affords choices along the extensionality/intensionality spectrum. Our analysis concludes that the distinction between epistemic modes for distinguishing definitions, norms, hypotheses, and observational evidence is more important the extensionality/intensionality dichotomy in ontological engineering.
Language: | English |
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Publisher: | IOS Press |
Year: | 2014 |
Pages: | 17-24 |
Series: | Frontiers in Artificial Intelligence and Applications |
ISBN: | 1614993602 , 1614993610 , 9781614993605 and 9781614993612 |
ISSN: | 18798314 and 09226389 |
Types: | Book chapter |
DOI: | 10.3233/978-1-61499-361-2-17 |
ORCIDs: | Nilsson, Jørgen Fischer |