Edu:Term List

This website is devoted to terms and their definitions used in applied ontology. It is intended to provide guidance on the meanings and uses of terms, which may vary greatly due to the multi-disciplinary character of the field. The terms are listed in alphabetical order.

Please be aware that the development of the term list is an ongoing and continuing project. As of June 2017, the term list is in an initial, preliminary stage, where first terms and, for some of them, first definitions have been gathered. Use the discussion tab on this page (or any other page in the wiki) for any discussion about the content on the page.

We welcome contributions in any form. Please submit proposals of content to be included (terms, definitions, references) as well as any comments or criticism to iaoa-education@ovgu.de, the list of the IAOA Education Committee. Better yet join the committee! ;-)

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Terms for Central General Notions

• Category
• Class
  • Defined Class
• Concept
• Continuant Synonym: Endurant
• Controlled Vocabulary
• Disposition
• Domain
• Endurant Synonym: Continuant
• Entity
  • Abstract Entity
  • Concrete Entity
  • Immaterial Entity
  • Material Entity
  • Realizable Entity
• Event
• Function
• Granularity
• Identity
  • Identity Criteria
• Individual Synonyms: Particular, Instance
• Inherence
• Instance Synonyms: Particular, Individual
• Instantiation
• Interpretation
• Kind
• Logic
• Mass
• Member
• Mereology
• Model
• Object
• Occurrent Synonym: Perdurant
• Ontology
  • Task Ontology
  • Application Ontology
  • Domain Ontology
  • Reference Ontology
  • Generic Ontology
  • Foundational Ontology Synonyms – Upper-level Ontology, Top-level Ontology
  • Upper-level Ontology Synonyms – Foundational Ontology, Top-level Ontology
  • Top-level Ontology Synonyms - Foundational Ontology, Upper-level Ontology
• Open-world Assumption
• Parthood
• Particular Synonyms: Individual, Instance
• Perdurant Synonyms: Occurrent
• Predicate
• Process
  • Process boundary
• Property
• Quality
  • Relational Quality
• Region
  • Spatial region
  • Spatiotemporal region
  • Temporal region
• Rigidity
• Role
• Relation
  • Particular-Particular Relation
• Semantics
• Sortal
• Stuff
• Taxonomy
• Term
• Terminology
• Type
• Universal

Terms for Peripheral General Notions

• Continuant
  • Continuant Fiat Boundary
  • Generically Dependent Continuant
  • Independent Continuant
  • Specifically Dependent Continuant

• Essence

• Exemplification

• Fiat Object Part

• Metaphysics

• Necessity

• Model Theory

• Object Aggregate

• Semantic Interoperability

• Trope

Terms Naming Particular Entities

Particular ontologies

• Basic Formal Ontology - BFO

• CYC ontology

• Descriptive Ontology for Linguistic and Cognitive. Engineering - DOLCE

• General Formal Ontology - GFO

• Unified Foundational Ontology - UFO

• Yet Another More Advanced Top-level Ontology - YAMATO

Particular ontology languages

• Common Logic - CL

• Description Logic - DL

• First Order Logic - FOL

• Web Ontology Language - OWL