Ontology

The study of being: concerned with what actually exists in the world about which one can acquire knowledge.

1. Notes

  • when comparing to a Knowledge Base, an ontology pertains to abstracter classes, whereas the former refers to specific instances of such classes.
  • in approaches concerning Symbolic AI, both these are practically used together.
  • there are several abstract properties and relations that can be defined between these classes in an ontology.
    • the Knowledge base may draw upon these general concepts or have stored facts that are used when answering a query.

3. Specializations

3.1. O-Topology

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