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Ontological Pragmatism
… questions are so easy to answer that many recent ontological debates are misguided. I call the resulting position `ontological pragmatism' and argue for it over a variety of views in ontology and metaontology alike. In chapter 1, I characterise two opposing metaontological camps: the dominate …
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Kirschner's Modal Ontological Argument
<p>Ontological Arguments for the existence of God, first discovered by St. Anselm (1033-1109), attempt to deduce the existence of God from the concept of God. It is the aim of this thesis to champion a modal version of the Ontological Argument as philosophically sound by demonstrating it to be …
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Toward ontological visual understanding
… event recognition, both emphasizing the ontological structure among concepts including object, scene, and event. The inference and learning make use of mutual relations among these concepts, and are general for any concept and initial concept recognition. Our experiments show that the …
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Ontological approach for database integration
… which should be transformed to axioms in the ontological model. The formal rules of our approach are domain independent; also, it produces a generic ontology that is not restricted to a specific ontology language. The rules consider the gap between the database model and the ontological model. …
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The Substance of Ontological Disputes
… be said to exist. This field is called ontology. Ontological disputes have sometimes been accused of being merely verbal disputes: that they are concerned only with language and not with facts. Some think that if this accusation is correct, philosophers should give up doing ontology. However, …
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Evil and the Ontological Disproof
<p>This dissertation is a revival of the <em>ontological disproof</em>, an ontological argument against the existence of God. The ontological disproof, in its original form, argues that God is impossible, because if God exists, he must exist necessarily, and necessary existence is impossible. The …
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Ontological Representation of Radiation Treatment Data
Radiation treatment, or the use of powerful electromagnetic waves to treat malignant growths in the body, has become very common in the treatment of cancer patients. The dangers of radiation, however, can be catastrophic if not utilized with the utmost caution; thus, meticulous treatment plans are …
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Resolving semantic conflicts through ontological layering
… architecture, which accommodates in its core, ontological layering, resulting in a Generic ontology for Context aware, Interoperable and Data sharing (Go-CID) software applications. The software architecture supports retrievals from various data repositories and resolves semantic conflicts …
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The Ontological Foundation of Moral Education
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The Derivation of Ontological Structures From Folksonomies
<p>The goal of this work is to support deductive reasoning over unstructured data called a folksonomy and mapping the information induced by the folksonomy to an ontology. Folksonomy can be described as an implicit structure that emerges from an unstructured collection of keywords. </p><p>The …
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The Acousmatic Musical Performance: An Ontological Investigation
… provides an answer to the following ontological question: what is an acousmatic musical performance? Chapter 1 discusses acousmatic sound – a fundamental constituent of the acousmatic musical performance – and considers ways in which acousmatic sounds are determined in advance of, and …
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Mindfulness, stress and self: an ontological shift
… study of mindfulness, and what an exploration of ontological underpinnings can provide to develop our understanding? And finally, whether this exploration supports a useful theory on both mindfulness and stress? Daily diary, interview and email data is gathered on participants’ discourses on …
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An ontological notion of tradition and education
This dissertation is a discussion of an ontological notion of tradition as opposed to a sociological one. It is argued in here that while the sociological notion of tradition is a theory regarding the nature of society, and more particularly a theory of social change, the ontological notion of …
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Ontological Understanding And The State Model Of Processes
… study and joint resolution of the main ontological issues concerning time, space, individuals, qualities and relations. Beginning with the goal of finding a theory or conceptual scheme for understanding change, four constraints on the study's scope are adopted: the traditional …
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Machine Performers: Agents in a Multiple Ontological State
In this thesis, the author explores and develops new attributes for machine performers and merges the trans-disciplinary fields of the performing arts and artificial intelligence. The main aim is to redefine the term “embodiment” for robots on the stage and to demonstrate that this term requires …
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Grounding, Causation and the Unity of Ontological Structure
… of the <em>X</em>s. Thus, grounded entities <em>ontologically depend</em> upon their grounds. According to the standard view on the matter, this kind of dependence is distinct from causal dependence, and thus grounding and causation are distinct dependence relations. So, on this view, dependence …
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The identity of social work: an ontological perspective
… problem, the question is radicalised into an ontological understanding of the issue. But since social work is essentially a human act, the ontology is also existential in kind, relating to specifically human being. The salient features of a fundamental philosophical anthropology are then set …
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Ontological parity and reciprocal constitution in Buchler's system
… to an order of complexes. The principle of ontological parity implies that no complex is more “real,” “natural,” or “complex” than any other. In Buchler’s view, being a trait of a complex or having traits is of the same ontological standing. Each is essential to the constitution of any given …
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