Web Ontologies as Renewal of Classical Philosophical Ontology

Pierre Livet (1)

1 CEPERC - Centre d'EPistémologie et d'ERgologie Comparatives

Do Web devices (addresses, tags, networks, and the rest) have counterparts in classical ontology? Yes, but they allow us also to introduce more refined distinctions. In addition, their dynamic use could inspire a dynamic reconception of classical ontology. In the process of making explicit ontological types, different types can be undistinguished as first steps (considered as "floating types") to be defined only in a further step, one in which their function as distinguishers of other kinds of entities has to be made explicit. The fact that the ontological import of some node in a network of tags and addresses could evolve with the transformation of the network can most easily find an interpretation in this dynamic conception of ontology.

Keywords: ontology; WEB; referent; URL; types

Domains: Philosophy

Pierre Livet. Web Ontologies as Renewal of Classical Philosophical Ontology. Metaphilosophy, 2012, 43, pp.396 - 404. ⟨10.1111/j.1467-9973.2012.01757.x⟩. ⟨hal-01079850⟩