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Ontology is the philosophical study of being. It is traditionally understood as the subdiscipline of metaphysics focused on the most general features of reality. As one of the most fundamental concepts, being encompasses all of reality and every entity within it. To articulate the basic structure of being, ontology examines the shared characteristics…
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| Subject | Predicate | Object | Confidence | Src |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Ontology | is a | philosophical study of being | 0.90 | text |
| Ontology | is a | subdiscipline of metaphysics | 0.90 | text |
| Ontology | is a | study of objects in general while focusing on their abstract structures and features | 0.90 | text |
| Ontology | is a | polycategorical theory | 0.90 | text |
| Ontology | is a | poststructuralist approach interested in the relation between the concepts of identity and difference | 0.90 | text |
| Ontology | is a | formal framework for the standardized representation of protein-related entities and their relationships | 0.90 | text |
| Ontology | is a | knowledge representation focused on ecosystems and environmental processes | 0.90 | text |
| substance | instance of | Systems of categories aim to provide a comprehensive inventory of reality by employing categories | 0.80 | text |
| property | instance of | Systems of categories aim to provide a comprehensive inventory of reality by employing categories | 0.80 | text |
| relation | instance of | Systems of categories aim to provide a comprehensive inventory of reality by employing categories | 0.80 | text |
| state of affairs | instance of | Systems of categories aim to provide a comprehensive inventory of reality by employing categories | 0.80 | text |
| and event.Ontologists disagree regarding which entities exist at the most basic level | instance of | Systems of categories aim to provide a comprehensive inventory of reality by employing categories | 0.80 | text |
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