====== term: ontology ======

//One of the [[t:terms]] used on this wiki.//

When I use the term “ontology” I generally mean it in both of these senses:
  - as a philosophical/psychological term, meaning (roughly) the way that a person, or a group of people, conceive of the world in terms of what exists and the relationships between those things; this is partly addressed in Wikipedia as simply [[wp>Ontology]], though the academic part of this is less relevant.
  - as a term in computer science, meaning (roughly) a model of the entities, attributes and relationships that are or are intended to be represented and dealt with, using a particular piece of information technology; in Wikipedia this is called [[wp>Ontology (computer science)]].

My term “[[ontological commoning]]” is intended to bridge the two senses.

My [[https://www.simongrant.org/pubs/web/typesofthing.html|Types of thing in the world]] is also relevant and may be of interest. I have been writing about ontology since around or before 2009. This gives a lot about my own perspective on an upper, or top ontology.

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