"What this means is that it involves a system of concepts in terms of which the corresponding universe of discourse is divided up into objects, processes and relations in different sorts of ways. Thus in a religious ritual setting we might use concepts such as salvation and purification; in a scientific setting we might use concepts such as virus and nitrous oxide; in a story-telling setting we might use concepts such as: leprechaun and dragon. Such conceptualizations are often tacit; that is, they are often not thematized in any systematic way. But tools can be developed to specify and to clarify the concepts involved and to establish their logical structure, and thus to render explicit the underlying taxonomy. We get very close to the use of the term ‘ontology’ in Gruber’s sense if we define an ontology as the result of such clarification – as, precisely, the specification of a conceptualization in the intuitive sense described in the above."

Slots and Values
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