Causality as a partitioning principle for upper ontologies

Journal of Knowledge Structures and Systems 2 (2):36-40 (2021)
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Abstract

In his “Bridging mainstream and formal ontology”, Augusto (2021) gives an excellent analysis of Dietrich von Freiberg’s idea of using causality as a partitioning principle for upper ontologies. For this Dietrich’s notion of extrinsic principles is crucial. The question whether causation can and indeed should be used as a partitioning principle for ontologies is discussed using mathematics and physics as examples.

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Jobst Landgrebe
State University of New York (SUNY)

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