What is the difference between ontology and taxonomy?
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(uncountable, philosophy) The branch of metaphysics that addresses the nature or essential characteristics of being and of things that exist; the study of being qua being.
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(countable, philosophy) The theory of a particular philosopher or school of thought concerning the fundamental types of entity in the universe.
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(logic) A logical system involving theory of classes, developed by (1886-1939).
(computer science, information science) A structure of concepts or entities within a domain, organized by relationships; a system model.
The science or the technique used to make a classification.
A classification; especially , a classification in a hierarchical system.
(taxonomy, uncountable) The science of finding, describing, classifying and naming organisms.
As nouns the difference between ontology and taxonomy
is that ontology is the branch of metaphysics that addresses the nature or essential characteristics of being and of things that exist; the study of being qua being while taxonomy is the science or the technique used to make a classification.ontology
English
(wikipedia ontology)Noun
(ontologies)- The answer to the controversial question of whether Aristotle's ontology includes non-substantial particulars, then, is that it does.
Usage notes
In the field of philosophy there is some variation in how the term ontology'' is used. ''Ontology'' is a much more recent term than ''metaphysics'' and takes its root meaning explicitly from the Greek term for ''being.'' ''Ontology'' can be used loosely as a rough equivalent to ''metaphysics or more precisely to denote that subset of the domain of metaphysics which is focused rigorously on the study of being as being.Holonyms
* metaphysicsDerived terms
* ontologic * ontological * ontologist * ontologistic * formal ontologyReferences
* * * * * * "ontology" by F.P. Siegfried, in The Catholic Encyclopedia (Robert Appleton Company, New York, 1911) * Oxford English Dictionary , second edition (1989) * Random House Webster's Unabridged Electronic Dictionary (1987-1996) * Dictionary of Philosophy'', (editor), Philosophical Library (1962); ''see: "Ontology" by James K. Feibleman, page 219 * "
Ontology" by Tom Gruber to appear in the Encyclopedia of Database Systems, Ling Liu and M. Tamer Özsu (editors), Springer-Verlag (2008) English words suffixed with -ology