Chapter 5: The Benefits of Realism: A Realist Logic with Applications

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Table of Contents v
3. Introduction: What is Ontology for? 7
4. Acknowledgments 20
5. Chapter 1: Philosophy and Biomedical Information Systems 21
6. Chapter 2: What is Formal Ontology? 39
7. Chapter 3: A Primer on Knowledge Representation and Ontological Engineering 57
8. Chapter 4: New Desiderata for Biomedical Terminologies 83
9. Chapter 5: The Benefits of Realism: A Realist Logic with Applications 109
10. Chapter 6: A Theory of Granular Partitions 125
11. Chapter 7: Classifications 159
12. Chapter 8: Categories: The Top-Level Ontology 173
13. Chapter 9: The Classification of Living Beings 197
14. Chapter 10: Ontological Relations 219
15. Chapter 11: Four Kinds of Is_a Relation 235
16. Chapter 12: Occurrents 255
17. Chapter 13: Bioinformatics and Biological Reality 285
18. References 311
19. Index 329