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Ontology
01
the branch of philosophy that is concerned with concepts such as existence, being, and reality
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Ontology explores questions about what exists, how entities relate to one another, and the fundamental nature of reality.
In ontology, philosophers inquire into the nature of being, distinguishing between different categories of existence and examining the properties of entities.
02
(in computer science) a structured and comprehensive representation of a knowledge domain, typically hierarchical, specifying entities and the relationships between them
Examples
The software uses an ontology to organize medical terms and their relationships.
Researchers built an ontology to model the structure of a legal database.
