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The first occurrence in English of " ontology " as recorded by the OED ( Oxford English Dictionary, second edition, 1989 ) appears in Nathaniel Bailey's dictionary of 1721, which defines ontology as ' an Account of being in the Abstract ' - though, of course, such an entry indicates the term was already in use at the time.
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The content of Being and Time, according to Husserl, claimed to deal with ontology, but from Husserl's perspective only did so in the first few pages of the book.
Modern advocates often take inspiration from the way time is modeled as a dimension in the theory of relativity, giving time a similar ontology to that of space ( although the basic idea dates back at least to McTaggart's B-Theory of time, first published in The Unreality of Time in 1908, only three years after the first paper on relativity ).
Galileo is the name most closely associated with the first scientific assault on biblical authority, but the heliocentric universe was sufficiently peripheral to biblical ontology to be eventually accommodated.
But first, an ontology is needed.
From early in his career ( and for many years after ), Sylvan defended a sophisticated Meinong-inspired ontology ( which he called " noneism "), first presented in his 1966 paper, " Some Things Do Not Exist.
It is also one of Berlin's first expressions of his ethical ontology of value-pluralism.
This first volume consisted of four books-covering his epistemology, ontology, aesthetics and ethics, in order.
Their objectives have three aspects, building gene ontology, assigning ontology to gene / gene products and develop software and database for first two objects.
Aristotle's actualistic ontology is a denial of " potential ontology " – that Being is the first cause of the cosmos.
Although not the first to mention the word " ontology " in computer science ( that distinction belongs to John McCarthy ), Hayes was one of the first to actually do it, and inspired an entire generation of researchers in knowledge engineering, logical formalizations of commonsense reasoning, and ontology.
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