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What Is an Ontology?

Formally, "An ontology is a formal, explicit specification of a shared conceptualization" [Guarino N. et al. (2009) "What Is an Ontology?." In: Handbook on Ontologies (pp. 1-17). Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg].

According to Wikipedia, an Ontology is the branch of philosophy that studies concepts such as existence, being, becoming, and reality. It includes the questions of how entities are grouped into basic categories and which of these entities exist on the most fundamental level. Ontology is sometimes referred to as the science of being and belongs to the major branch of philosophy known as metaphysics. ...

Ontologies - described in the 2022-06-30 Persagen Blog entry, What Is an Ontology? - play a key role in the categorization and discovery of knowledge at Persagen.com. Persagen's ontology, Eureka!, facilitates the hierarchical categorization of anything in the universe - real or imagined - in a grounded, relational structure.

Eureka! enables the rapid understanding of an entity or concept, visualization of it's relationship to other entities and concepts, and discovery of related entities and concepts.