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Showing 1 to 9 of 9 for “"Ontological commitment."”.
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An Extensionalist Approach to Ontological Commitment: Why Quine is Mostly Right
<p>A criterion of ontological commitment is a formal method for determining what objects or entities a theory says exists. The most famous criterion of ontological commitment was developed by W.V.O. Quine. However, Quine's criterion has been attacked for presumably not meeting his own standards for …
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A Core Reference Hierarchical Primitive Ontology for Electronic Medical Records Semantics Interoperability
… internal information exchange. The second is ontological commitment to the semantics of a particular knowledge representation language formalism. This research seeks to address these interoperability failures through demonstration of the capability of a core reference, hierarchical primitive …
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Merleau-Ponty and the dialectic of perception
… explain the event of perception in terms of an ontological commitment that is essentially derivative from perception and hence a distorting abstraction from it. After developing each theory and re-constructing Merleau-Ponty's most persuasive arguments, I defend his own positive contribution--his …
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Mathematical warrants, objects and actions in higher school mathematics
… for justification and self conviction; (2) ontological commitment to mathematical objects; and (3)developing a capability to execute some mathematical procedures automatically.
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Challenges to Effective Realism
… use of effective field theories to guide ontological commitment.
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Explanation in metaphysics.
… to be the case, of identifying what I call ontological explanations, is of special importance to metaphysics, since the task of metaphysics generally is to get to the bottom of reality. The concept of ontological explanation is usually buried a layer deep in most discussions, however, and …
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Plural predication
… leads to an extension of Quine's criterion of ontological commitment. I argue that theories containing plural predicates can have plural ontological commitments in addition to singular ones. In this sense, I argue that the subject-matter of ontology is richer than one might have thought. Plural …
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Gadamer's ontology: an examination of Hans-Georg Gadamer's concept of being in relation to Heidegger, Plato and Hegel
An examination of the ontological position on which Hans-Georg Gadamer’s views rely, and of its relationship to the views of Heidegger, Plato and Hegel. I argue that Gadamer’s notion of being appeals to a structure he uses repeatedly in other areas of his philosophy in which the communal …
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Real commitment: a coarse-grained approach to reality via alternative theories in physics
… these cases concern different interpretations of ontologically committing to some parts of a mathematical formalism rather than other parts. I put forward a framework that treats different interpretations as different choices of `semantic grain'. According to the problem at hand, we can opt for a …