Showing papers on "Ontology (information science) published in 1973"
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01 Jan 1973
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TL;DR: The ontology of Leśniewski as mentioned in this paper is a calculus of names that was constructed with the aim of bringing logic closer to the intuitions of natural language and searching for foundations for mathematics.
Abstract: S. Leśniewski’s calculus of names, often referred to as ontology, originated in 1920. This system like his other systems, mereology and prosthetics, was constructed with the aim on the one hand of bringing logic closer to the intuitions of natural language and on the other of searching for foundations for mathematics. Leśniewski’s ontology, in spite of numerous intuitive and formal advantages and in spite of its considerable expressive potential, has been underrated and little known for a long time; although half a century has passed since the construction of the system no precise elaboration of it has yet appeared which takes account of its methodological aspect. This situation seems fundamentally to be due to the fact that Leśniewski published no paper presenting his system in more or less final form. The manuscripts that Leśniewski left and which covered the results of the years of his investigations into ontology were destroyed during world war II. Nor should one ignore the fact that most of the published papers, in which Leśniewski presented his system at the stage of formalisation, were written in a difficult and not easily intelligible style. Leśniewski’s complicated symbols, although abounding in interesting ideas, differ from the familiar logical and set-theoretic symbols and thus create an obstacle to the appreciation of his ideas. This explains the scarcity of extensive discussions of the ontology.
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20 Feb 1973
TL;DR: Ortega's ability to coin compact formulas, expressive of the thrust of his probing mind at various moments, has militated against the well deserved endurance of his thought as discussed by the authors.
Abstract: nicality in philosophical formulas, yet offered us, under the cloak of such precision, a great quantity of extreme solutions and intransigent groups. This restraint and insight notwithstanding, it has been Ortega’s ability to coin compact formulas, expressive of the thrust of his probing mind at various moments, that has militated against the well deserved endurance of his thought. The dialectic that isolates, then offsets, the impact of philosophical recommendations ravaged Ortega’s transparent and pregnant formulas.
TL;DR: This paper put forward an interpretation of Wittgenstein's Tractarian views concerning ontology and method, but their interpretation is more an exercise in educated guessing in that they can find no textual authority for what they say; but they nonetheless believe that it is reasonable to suppose that someone with Wittgenstone's views might have come down on the side of these issues that they have.
Abstract: We shall in the following put forward an interpretation of Wittgenstein's Tractarian views concerning ontology and method. On certain points, however, our "interpretation" becomes more an exercise in educated guessing in that we can find no textual authority for what we say; but we nonetheless believe that it is reasonable to suppose that someone with Wittgenstein's views might have come down on the side of these issues that we have. Where we can find textual support for one of our points, or where one of our points can be seen to explicate a somewhat dark passage in the text, we indicate this by placing the number of the passage in parentheses after the point.1