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Ontologically yours

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The word ‘ontology‘ belongs to the vocabulary of Philosophy, and it is now commonly used in Artificial Intelligence with a rather different meaning. There is nothing wrong here, so long as what is meant remains clear. AI typically claims to use ontology for building ‘conceptual structures‘. Now concepts are named by words, and in the relation concept-word, the goals of AI imply not to move too far away from words. Therefore, it is not at all certain that ‘conceptual structures‘ should be handled in the way that logicians and philosophers consider to be adequate for concepts. Thinking about the actual use of words in reasoning may therefore open some new perspectives in the theory of ‘conceptual structures‘.

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  1. L.I.P.N., Institut Galilée, Université Paris-Nord, Avenue Jean-Baptiste Clément, F-93430, Villetaneuse, France

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Kayser, D. (1998). Ontologically yours. In: Mugnier, ML., Chein, M. (eds) Conceptual Structures: Theory, Tools and Applications. ICCS 1998. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 1453. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/BFb0054903

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