Categories in Top-Level Ontologies: Revisiting the Aristotelian Background
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Abstract. In the field of applied ontology, it is now commonplace to refer to a top-level ontology, and the Basic Formal Ontology (BFO) has even been recognized as an ISO standard. Like other contemporary top-level ontologies, BFO makes use of distinctions that have been developed in philosophy, many of which are already to be found in Aristotele. In this essay, we revisit Aristotele’s metaphysics and discuss the similarities and differences with BFO.
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